[c-nsp] Cisco 7600 Vs Cisco 6500

[Michael Smith]

On Jul 12, 2005, at 10:07 PM, Dmitry Valdov wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Jul 2005, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
>
>
>>> Can anyone state the differences between Cisco 65xx Catalyst  
>>> Switch and
>>> the Cisco 7600 router? What is also the roadmap of both?
>>>
>>
>> The 6500 has only LAN linecards for ethernet (basically), the 7600
>> tries to be a replacement for the 7500 router and needs to handle  
>> all the
>> WAN capabilities of it.
>>
>>
>
> This is not true.
> 7600 and 6500 has different chassic and marketing position.
> Both of them have the same functionality.
>
> With one exception - 7600 chassic doesn't supported by CatOS AFAIK.
>
Two exceptions; the 7600 is also NEBS Compliant.

Mike