[c-nsp] Cat6500 - Support for MPLS and IPv6

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 12:44:52AM -0400, Stephen Fulton wrote:
> FWIW, I spent a lot of time researching the 6500/7600 BU issue in 
> preparation for our last round of upgrades.  The best (and most honest) 
> answer I got about service provider software features on the 6500 series 
> was this:  We'll still support MPLS, IPv6 etc, but new feature may be 
> released on the 7600 series first, and made available for the 6500 
> series later.  It was also implied that some specific features may not 
> make the 6500 code train at all.

Yes, this is about how I understand the situation.

OTOH, 6500 gets software modularity, which is something that we consider
a *real* must for any decent high-availability environment.  Like in
"oh, our BGP process is eating all RAM again?  just restart it!" as
opposed to "reboot the whole box".

I'm aware that SXH is still not fully there, and the whole "we'll release
patches for bugs so that you don't actually need to upgrade" thing hasn't
happened yet, but the idea is good, and we want that.


<rant>
But then, given that the Juniper MX series is priced about the same, and
doesn't carry any of this sh*t with it, we might finally just forget about
all this, and jump off the sinking ship (anybody wondering why Cisco's
stock price is falling all the time?).  Any while a few ISP sales (or not)
might not really interest Cisco anymore, if these ISPs tell their customers 
why they do not buy Cisco gear, and recommend other vendors instead, this 
might have some impact...
</rant>

gert

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