[c-nsp] Fwd: Alternantive to REB(route bridge Encapsulation)-2nd try

[Pete Templin]

Lamar Owen wrote:

> However, I must rant just a bit, so please indulge me for a moment.  And I 
> fully realize many of you won't care about what I'm going to talk about 
> below, and that's ok.

It's not that I won't care, it's that I care about your stance here.

> I (and other enterprise usera and NSP's in my boat; I use an NSP who is a 
> non-profit, for instance) am well aware that I should have something more 
> modern; I cannot afford it, especially now that a big hunk of my equipment 
> budget just went away thanks to the NECA tariff increase.  And while I know 
> that there is a contingent out there with the attitude that if someone can't 
> afford rolling forklift upgrades every few years that they shouldn't be in 
> business, I have no need for their opinion on that matter.

The 7500s are roughly 13 years old.  As such, they've served about four 
generations of IT lifecycle and then some, assuming upgrades every few 
years.  From what little I can dig up, they were designed for core 
backbone routing applications.

The 12000 series is perhaps 9 years old.  That's three lifecycles, and 
these too were designed for core backbone routing applications. 
Remember the great time-to-market linecards?  Yeah, the ones with no 
hope of being an edge card.

With all due respect, how much enterprise feature value were you 
HONESTLY expecting from these core backbone routing platforms?  Have any 
of these devices STOPPED doing what they do/did best?

pt