[c-nsp] 7600, DFC's and MPLS

[Asbjorn Hojmark - Lists]

> Which makes one wonder what to do if STM-16 connectivity is
> needed on 7600 today...  "get an OSM and know that it will be
> end-of-development RealSoonNow" or "wait for an STM-16 SPA to
> appear"...

True, you wouldn't want to spend too much on OSMs today.

Only partly related but... not too long ago, they announced the
End-of-Sale and End-of-Life of the IPSec service module (to be
replaced with the IPSec SPA). At they same time they announced
that the current software (SXF) will be the last to support the
module. The customer may actually have bought that IPSec module
only a few months ago (when the SPA didn't exist), and now *the
whole box* is effectively dead in terms of features... (Because
they won't be able to upgrade it).

-A