[c-nsp] comparison 7301 and 7204-G1

[Ian Henderson]

David J. Hughes <mailto:bambi at hughes.com.au> wrote on Sunday, 15 October
2006 8:34 AM:

> Yup, there's 2 sets of components but they are physically on the same
> board.  If any major component "let go" then there'd be a very good
> chance of it taking out the second "psu" as well.  From a continuity
> of service standpoint I'd only view it as power circuit redundancy.   

Although, how often do people see rack power fail compared to the PSU in
the box? Just off the top of my head I'd say it would be 10 to 1 or
higher, so the 'Y cable' solution of the 7301 would do just fine.


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Ian Henderson, CCIE #14721
Senior Network Engineer, iiNet Limited