[c-nsp] Cat 6500 - now specced !

[Robert Blayzor]

Phil Mayers wrote:
> The 8x1Gig ports on the sup32 are I believe connected to the 32Gbps bus 
> via their shared ASIC/controller just like ports on a 6148A would be. A 
> very very interesting question here is whether that controller is a 
> "stub" controller limiting the throughput like the 6148 or not.

All of the on-board Sup32 Gig-E ports can run full rate. (all nine of
them I believe).  If you have a redundant Sup32 setup, you have a total
of 18 Gig-E ports, but then you'd be slightly oversubscribed on the bus.

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