[c-nsp] Edge Router Advice

[Jon Lewis]

On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Paul Stewart wrote:

> Thanks for the input Jon.... The 6500 seems to make sense as we have
> others in our network (3 in total - 2 core and 1 distribution) so spare
> line cards and supervisors are already in place in case of something
> real drastic.  Plus, the 6500's have been our "crown jewel" of
> routers... Rock solid and very few problems ever either code wise or
> hardware wise....

If all your transits are (or can be converted to) FE/GE, I think the 6500 
is hard to beat.  If you're already using them, and can have a common pool 
of spare parts, that just makes them even more appealing.  Ours have also 
been extremely stable.

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