[c-nsp] Cat6500 modular IOS - direction?

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 08:23:53PM +0200, ?ukasz Bromirski wrote:
> With the new Supervisor the IOS-XE high
> availability model is going to be used (however it is still to early
> to get into gory details), 

"The Rumors" seem to suggest that "The New Supervisor" (does it have
management commitment yet?), if it shows up, is incompatible with existing
line cards, runs a completely different software than "The Old Supervisor",
and mainly shares the chassis and power supplies with the 6500 line.

If these rumors are true, it's not really an extention of the 6500 line,
more a "different switch that happens to share a few parts" - and we
already have that, it's called Nexus...  so using those development
resources to improve NX-OS might have been more beneficial.

gert,
   deeply frustrated by 6500 politics
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