[c-nsp] software upgrade 3750 to 3750 Metro

Richard Gallagher rgallagh at cisco.com
Fri Oct 14 05:41:19 EDT 2005


It's not a PXF CPU as in other devices, it's another type of ASIC.

Maxim Tuliuk wrote:
> Thanks! And what about "PXF router onboard" ?
> 
> On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 19:03 +1000, Richard Gallagher wrote:
>> From:
>>
>> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps5532/products_data_sheet09186a00801eb820.html
>>
>> The Enhanced Services ports support enhanced features such as 
>> Hierarchical QoS and Traffic Shaping, intelligent 802.1Q tunneling, VLAN 
>> translation, MPLS, and EoMPLS. These ports can serve as uplinks to metro 
>> aggregation points, including the Cisco Catalyst 4500 and Catalyst 6500 
>> series and the Cisco 7600 Series, and they provide greater intelligence 
>> at the network edge.
>>
>> The regular cat3750 does not have the same ES ports avialable to enable 
>> these extra features.
>>
>> HTH, Ric
>>
>> Maxim Tuliuk wrote:
>>> On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 10:26 +0200, Asbjorn Hojmark - Lists wrote:
>>>>> Can I do upgrade from 3750 to 3750 Metro?  If yes how?
>>>> No.
>>>>
>>>> The 3750ME has a small PXF router onboard, so it's simply not
>>>> the same hardware.
>>> Is it official or unofficial information? i.e I didn't find about it
>>> on cisco site
> 


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