[c-nsp] ME3750 Shaping

[Eric Van Tol]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brad Henshaw [mailto:brad.henshaw at qcn.com.au]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2008 11:24 PM
> To: Eric Van Tol
> Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: RE: [c-nsp] ME3750 Shaping
>
> Oh I'm sure it can do what you need - but only on 2 out of the 28 ports
> :-/
> (which is obviously insufficient)
>

Yes, very frustrating.  Other vendors seem to be able to support full functionality on all ports, so I'm not sure why Cisco continues to rely on either outdated technology or bad BU decisions to cripple boxes.  I'm pretty sure that it's the hardware that's the problem, though.

> When I've hit this situation I've ended up using multiple ME3750s but
> this isn't
> really scalable beyond 2 units. 7600+OSM or 7600+SIP400+GE SPA's are
> just (for our
> application) too expensive. ASR might be a viable option depending on
> required
> throughput.

7600/ME4900/ME6500/ASR - None are either very cost effective or are simply too big and use too much power for what we are doing.  We don't really have an upgrade to 10/100/1000 on this switch anyway, so that's also going to play a big role in our decision.

-evt