[c-nsp] Extreme vs. Cisco

[Mikael Abrahamsson]

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Drew Weaver wrote:

> 	I think you might be missing the point which is that historically 
> extreme equipment performs nowhere near its stated performance 
> limitations. So whatever the stated performance was at the time that we 
> bought a 6808 for $175,000 it wasn't able to meet that performance. 
> Whereas we have seen no difficulties in getting Cisco gear to do what it 
> is stated it can do without really messing with it in any way.

This is not my experience. What part of the stated performance doesn't the 
6808 meet?

Yes, cisco realised before other L3 switch vendors that you needed TCAM 
to do LPM routing and they should have full credit for this, the 3550 is 
actually quite good as L3 device and we use it as that in some parts of 
the network, but we always have to keep ourselves within its limitations, 
just as we do our Extremes. Just as an example, we use Extreme Summit 48si 
as what some would call BRAS and it works extremely well.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se