[c-nsp] cisco-nsp Digest, Vol 86, Issue 90

[Jeff Bacon]

> From: Geoffrey Pendery <geoff at pendery.net>
>
> Thirded.
> We recently built out a large deployment, with a mix of hardware
> ordered, and the 4900Ms were the last thing to arrive, many months
late.
> The 4500's with Sup 6E were also significantly delayed due to short
> supply (and indeed, I believe the 4900M really is a 4500 Sup6E,
> just in a fixed slot chassis).

All of the 4900s are just forms of 4500-supXs in a fixed-unit box at a
far better price. 
The 4948 is I believe a sup-V, only you can't oversubscribe it (which
you could easily do in the 4k chassis form). Rather nice of them. 

It's a crying shame really that the cat4k development group lost the Big
Nexus Battle and went off to Arista. Well, unless you happen to like
Arista. :) 

-bacon
(planning to put an Arista in his test lab soon)