[c-nsp] 6500 vs. 7600 revisited again (was: CSM for service providers)

[Mohacsi Janos]

Dear All,


On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Peter Rathlev wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 22:15 +0200, Gert Doering wrote:
> <snip>
>> PS: I'm sorry.  This was my last "6500/7600 BU politics suck big time" rant.
>
> Aww... It was beginning to get under my skin. ;-D
>
>> While it won't change any time soon, this is just not the topic for this
>> mailing list, and I'll try to return to constructive postings now.
>
> I guess some (a lot?) on this changed their 6500's for 7600's when they
> had the chance, seeing that it is the SP choice, but maybe in some time
> we can see what way things went. We, as a semi large-ish enterprise
> (government health care), chose to change away from 7600 to 6500 as core
> boxen for our metro/regional network. This was after a long period of
> problems with instability on SRB. Now we run 6500/SXF and it works like
> a charm, knock on wood. (For MPLS VPN + a little EoMPLS + a few service
> modules.)
>
> (I'm not trying to keep this thread going by the way. Really!)

I have heard some success and failure stories of Cisco 7600.....

Probably we have to ask the 7600 BU to improve their software and take 
decisions that make sense:
- They should improve quality of the IOS softwares!! - I have heard that 
SRD will be tested more thoroughly... But currently Cisco 7600 BU played 
on the customer loyalty... and exploited their inability to change.
- Cisco 7600 BU should go something similar to safe harbour....
- They (6500 BU and 7600 BU) should support all new supervisor cards... 
RSP720 is not supported in 6500 and sup720-10GE series not supported in 
7600. This is nonsense!
- They can distinguish certain cards to be supported on Cisco 6500 or 
Cisco 7600 according the market segment.
-LAN type switchingcards should be supported on both C7600 and C6500.... - 
fabric enabled with *720* and non fabric enabled with sup32* and *720*

Best Regards,

Janos Mohacsi
Network Engineer, Research Associate, Head of Network Planning and Projects
NIIF/HUNGARNET, HUNGARY
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