[c-nsp] Supervisor 32 Compact Flash

[Buhrmaster, Gary]

> I concur, the same applies to control-plane speed, the foundry loads  
> a full table in seconds, while on sup720 it is measured in minutes.  
> Is it so hard to find a decent processor, just put an socket on the  
> sup, and I could by an AMD Opteron for it myself.

Well, most of the existing software is currently for the MIPS 
architecture chips (seems that a lot of the chips for earlier
devices came from PMC-Sierra, or the acquired company name QED),
so dropping in an Opteron is not likely to be a good solution :-)

It looks like Cisco is moving to the PowerPC architecture
(Freescale manufactured I think) chips for newer routers 
(the NPE-G2 as an example).  I would not be surprised to 
see the PowerPC use expanded, and that could mean faster
control-plane speeds.

Gary 

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