[c-nsp] Which one? 6500 or 7600

[gmb]

--- David Prall <dcp at dcptech.com> wrote:
> Definitely talk to you Account Team. The 6500 (SX)
> will run on all, while
> the 7600 (SR) will only run on 7600 when SRB is
> released. The two are going
> in different directions. 6500 Enterprise and 7600
> Service Provider. What
> that means I don't know, plenty of Service Providers
> require Enterprise
> features and plenty of Enterprises use Service
> Provider features. But with
> this new direction, hopefully we will start getting
> features faster, since
> each code base will be focused on specific features
> for who they believe are
> their customers.

It's clear that 7600s are going very fast towards
their GSR/CRS brothers both feature-wise and
price-wise. So these boxes would get interest from big
telcos and definitely loose the position of being a
decent router for reasonable price.

Now the most important question here is whether the
6500 team decided to artificially degrade the 6500
towards a dumb enterprise switch. Hope the answer here
is no; otherwise it means that the whole 6500/7600
split is just an attempt to kill the possibility to
use 6500s as routers and force customers requiring
moderate SP featureset to pay premium prices.

--gmb


 
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