[c-nsp] IOS version

[Tim Durack]

After much deliberation, we chose to go 6500 for primarily GigE and
some 10Gig. Toyed with purchasing SIP-400 cards for lower speed WAN
style interfaces, but I think we can avoid that by using the VS-S720
for WAN facing ports as it has good size buffers. Of course we lose
all the fancy QoS and other features of the SIP-400, but that is a
reasonable trade off for our environment.

Overall we prefer the direction 12.2SX (6500) is taking, over 12.2SR
(7600). Time will tell...

Tim:>

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 6:39 AM, Mark Tech <techconfig at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi
>  Thanks for that. My requirements are:
>  1. to have an increased number of Ethernet ports for customer connections, i.e. make use of 48port GigE cards
>  2. to have stable BGP including carrying full Internet routes
>  3. Use basic policy maps for traffic rate limiting per interface
>  4. have the potential to use WAN interfaces, DS3, STM1 etc
>
>  My view was that a 6500 with SUP720 should be able to do this. As budgets are tight, I can get refurbished kit from Cisco authorised vendors at a very good price. I'd guess that there are a lot more refurbised  6500's that 7600's due to the maturity of the product
>
>  The alternative is to get some Foundry MLX's which I already run as my main peering boxes, however they only do Ethernet with no option for PDH/SDH etc  apart from STM4/16
>
>
>  Any suggestions
>
>
>
>  ----- Original Message ----
>  From: Peter Rathlev <peter at rathlev.dk>
>  To: Mark Tech <techconfig at yahoo.com>
>  Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
>  Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 12:31:04 AM
>  Subject: Re: [c-nsp] IOS version
>
>  Hi Mark,
>
>  On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 08:45 -0700, Mark Tech wrote:
>  > Hi
>
> > We currently run Cisco 7206VXR's using c7200-p-mz.122-25.S train in an
>  >  ISP environment. I am looking to get some 6500's but I'm a little
>  >  confused as to which IOS to get as 12.2 'service provider' seems to
>  >  just have deferred software.
>  >
>  > Other than that the only other options are 12.2.33-SXH1 (ED) and
>  >  12.2.18-SXF13 (ED). Can someone point me in the right direction as to
>  >  what IOS/Software Feature Set to use for 6500's with a sup720 in an
>  >  ISP environment
>
>
> You can only get ED versions for the 6500. The 12.2SXF train is quite
>  mature by now, and has had no new software features added since SXF7 or
>  something.
>
>  "ISP environment" can probably mean a lot of things. You're bound by the
>  hardware features, so things like shaping are not supported without e.g.
>  SIP-cards. You can take a look at the Feature Navigator to see what
>  specific feature set you need. Probably something like IP Services og
>  Adv. IP Services, but it depends on what you need them to do.
>
>  It's very different from 7200 by the way. It's an advanced hardware
>  switch, so many things you're used to with a 7200 may not work, or may
>  work in a different way.
>
>  Regards,
>  Peter
>
>
>
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