[c-nsp] ISR G2 "multicore"?

[Mark Tinka]

On Friday 30 October 2009 04:13:01 pm Lincoln Dale wrote:

> one of the luxuries we have with NX-OS is since we have
> complete separation of control-plane and data-plane there
> really isn't anything that drops you into software
> forwarding.
> that in itself is a major benefit - but it does come with
> the cost that the platform is only capable of
> implementing features that the underlying hardware (ASIC)
> forwarding path supports.

Some might not see that as necessarily a bad thing, provided 
the ASIC is robust enough to handle all of the user's 
required features in the hardware path (being the only path) 
:-).

Cheers,

Mark.
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