packet buffers Re: [c-nsp] 12008 replacement, 7300?

[Mikael Abrahamsson]

On Fri, 13 May 2005, Matthew Crocker wrote:

> If you are taking big pipes and feeding little pipes you'll want the
> bigger packet buffers.  high latency is better than dropped packets.

For TCP yes, for other applications, not necessarily.

> I don't know the direction Cisco is going with either package, to me it 
> looks like they are developed by two different engineering groups 
> competing against each other.  CSR-1 & 12ks in the core and 7600s on the 
> edge?? I dunno

Yes, that's the way cisco is pitching it. 7600 will do a lot of core 
features and if you're going ethernet only, 7600 is a lot of bang for the 
buck. Upgrade before overload and it'll do fine.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se