[c-nsp] RSP720/PFC3C/20G-CE

[Ed Butler]

I'd like to add another voice to this. The Sup720s in our 6500s are
crying our for more CPU power, we'd place an order tomorrow for the
RSP720s if they were going to be supported in the 6500s.

Perhaps Cisco will give the Sup1440 a 2Ghz+ CPU?

Regards,

Ed Butler
RapidSwitch Ltd
DDI: 020 7106 0731

RapidSwitch Ltd, 5th Floor, Sovereign House, 227 Marsh Wall, London, E14
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-----Original Message-----
From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
[mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Phil Mayers
Sent: 11 December 2006 11:42
To: Saku Ytti
Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] RSP720/PFC3C/20G-CE

Saku Ytti wrote:
> ES20's. I really hope that market doesn't accepts ciscos intention to 
> separate 7600 and 6500, from my point of view, risk seems to be that 
> 7600 gets no cheap and dense interfaces and 6500 doesn't edge 
> intelligent edge interfaces nor powerful CPU to do routing in it.

Agreed. The SRA split is irritating as well, given the frankly
lacklustre SXF train. I would far rather have the features in SRA on my
6500s than the (basically useless) modular software.

> Hopefully this strategy will boost MX, foundry, extreme and f10 sales 
> and cisco has to remove all silly locks.
> (Note I'm crying wolf here, I never heard from anyone that so radical 
> differentiation is planned, just speculation)

I have heard nothing official, but every indication so far is that they
intend to do this.

I would urge all customers concerned about this to talk to their account
managers. Make your voices heard.

> 
> I know several people who actually would want to use RSP720 with 10G's

> and few SFP's. And of course ~everyone would want to use cheap and 
> dense interfaces even if they have couple intelligent blades.

Given their CPU load peaks at ~18% I would put an RSP720 into our 6500s
tomorrow if I thought it were going to be supported (full netflow plus
ARP/IGMP/PVST+/HSRP with aggressive timers for ~300 subnets per box,
before anyone asks).

I am frankly disappointed the RSP720 doesn't have an even faster CPU, in
the region of 2-2.5 GHz.
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