[c-nsp] DS-3 -> OC-3 upgrade

[Jon Lewis]

On Mon, 16 May 2005, Chris Cappuccio wrote:

> The increase in ping rtt probably has everything to do with the fact that you
> are hitting 90% utilization (as a 5 minute average? so your spikes in those
> 5 mins could be close to 100%) on your ds3 ports, not the cpu utilization.
> Keep running the npe-300, and by the time you start hitting 65% cpu, the npe-g1
> will be a few $1000s cheaper, or you could even try something else entirely.

Or for less than the cost of the NPE-G1 upgrade (not to mention a PA-OC3
card), he could probably buy a 7507, RSP4s, POSIP-OC3, and some VIP2-50s.
That'll deal better than the NPE300...but it won't survive an OC3 of small
packet DDoS.

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