[c-nsp] ASR1004 vs 7606(RSP720-CXL)

[Dobbins, Roland]

On Nov 26, 2009, at 9:45 PM, Julio Arruda wrote:

> Is the N7K is a hard-coded-can't-change forwarding glue (EARL8 at that) platform, TCAM based, hence the 'switch' term ?

It uses the EARL8 ASIC, yes, and it's considered a layer-3 switch.  However, the EARL8 does allow for considerably more flexibility than the previous ASICs (i.e., good NetFlow, good uRPF, not so many weird ACL-construction caveats, etc.), and the NX-OS software platform is much more easy a development platform to deal with than IOS.

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