[c-nsp] Is Catalyst6509 with SupII or Sup720 suitable for L3 Traffic?

Hyunseog Ryu r.hyunseog at ieee.org
Tue Mar 28 11:52:23 EST 2006


I couldn't agree with that.
Cisco has Cisco 7600 router, which is branded for L3 router, but it is
essentially same as CAT6500 ethernet switch.
If you use SUP720, it should be fine with L3 traffic.
Basically CAT 6509 hardware is same as Cisco 7609 router.

Hyun

Joe Shen wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> we have several Catalyst6509 which have SupII and
> Sup720 installed. Currently, some of those
> catalyst6509 has about 100G - 200G traffic switched.
> Most of those traffic is L3 switch. And, there is also
> VLAN transmitted as  DSLAM--6509--BRAS.
> we are considering optimizing the system archtecture.
> someone said Catalyst6509 is not fitful to L3 traffic,
> so it should be replaced by Service Router with high
> port density. 
>
> Is that true?
>
> Joe
>
>
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