[c-nsp] Cisco7609 as P layer

[Christian Meutes]

Am i missing here a important point of feature support?
In my world a 7600 is much better placed on the
core than on the edge (as long it's about ethernet).

Beeing a edge-router normally needs more brain than
beeing a stupid IGP/PIM/MPLS-"Switch".

Just my 2 cents.

christian


Quoting Kim Onnel <karim.adel at gmail.com>:

> Its for a simple fact, it was not designed to do so and you might get
> different performance and the roadmap inside the BU would be different and
> the support from TAC as well.
>
> Plus it would be unfair to compare price and performance of 7600 to an M320
> and Juniper would never put an M7i or M10 as P, so its all about Positioning
> not just 'pure technical' judgement.
>
> My 0.2$
>
> On Feb 12, 2008 1:23 PM, Peter Rathlev <peter at rathlev.dk> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 12:38 +0200, Mauritz lewies wrote:
>> > Has anyone used the 7609's (SUP720) as P layer devices in their MPLS
>> >  networks?
>>
>> We use some 7604/Sup720 with 6700 LAN cards in a Metro Ethernet setup,
>> no problems.
>>
>> > Cisco seems to keep rejecting this idea, but can't give me valid
>> >  answers why.
>>
>> They just say "No!" or what? Is it because they won't support a P
>> configuration?
>>
>> > The problem is that buying a GSR or CRS just doesn't make sense if the
>> >  core will always be Ethernet and currently our core will take at least
>> >  5 years to get to close to 10Gbps
>>
>> Well, the 7600 can do 10G Ethernet fine. And if you'd need anything
>> other than Ethernet, the SIP-cards are there for you.
>>
>> If you don't need anything advanced I can't see why the 7600 isn't a
>> good idea. I'm not sure, but AFAIK it can do QoS queuing and scheduling
>> on MPLS EXP bits, and it supports MPLS TE, so from my point of view it'd
>> be a "perfect" P-box. Just my €.02. :-)
>>
>> Regards,
>> Peter
>>
>>
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