[c-nsp] ISR G2 "multicore"?

[Adrian Chadd]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009, David Hughes wrote:

> >The smartest/sanest thing to do, IMHO, would be to work at migrating  
> >to NX-OS, feature-set by feature-set.  It's by far the cleanest and  
> >best-designed OS platform Cisco have come out with to date.
> 
> Couldn't agree more.  NX-OS looks like a great platform that could  
> "easily" become the basis for all things in the future.  And lets face  
> it, it's designed to use high-performance, low-cost CPUs for the  
> control plane.   Would we ever need to think about cpu usage of the  
> BGP scanner again if there was a quad core i7 sitting under the hood?

People write crap code for fast CPU's all the time David. They also
get paid for it and it somehow gets into production. :)




Adrian