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

[Mark Tinka]

On Thursday 26 November 2009 07:32:37 am David Hughes wrote:

> From a customer perspective who uses 6500s for L2/L3
>  aggregation in the DC and MPLS/IP core functionality, I
>  can see them losing their shine.  They are a solid
>  platform and I do like them a lot but working with the
>  caveats can be a pain.  N7K is starting to look like a
>  winning platform  :

Same here - we love the 6500 to bits. It's simply solid 
provided you know which buttons NOT to push (easy in our 
case, they only do pure Layer 2 Ethernet forwarding).

However, for any new purchases, we're now looking at the 
Nexus 7000's and Juniper's EX8200's because they make more 
sense for 10Gbps Layer 2 aggregation, and will scale to 
40Gbps and 100Gbps.

Even with the SUP2T looming in the horizon, we'd be insane 
thinking we can grow with the 6500 in the future beyond 
10Gbps.

Cheers,

Mark.
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