[c-nsp] 10G Ethernet Module

[Tima Maryin]

Just wanted to add

- negative points: you lose TE support on etherchannel when you switch from SXF 
to SXH/SHI

:)

Gert Doering wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 08:48:40PM -0500, Tony Varriale wrote:
>> From: "Gert Doering" <gert at greenie.muc.de>
>>
>>> (Regarding your question, I can't say.  We decided to go for 6500 
>>> chassis and SX* IOS - to eventually get software modularity...
>> And how's that working out for you?
> 
> Well.
> 
>  - positive points: SXH/SXI seems to have less exciting and amazing bugs
>    than the SR* series.  Most of the releases "just work" for us, even
>    though we hit some esoteric bugs every now and the.
> 
>  - positive points: LAN cards "just work for us"
> 
>  - we have only lab-tested SXI-modular so far, and it seemed to be
>    well-behaving - bit I'm a bit disappointed at the lack of visible
>    progress here, as in "no more patches" and "the modularity is not
>    *that* modular at all yet, with CDPd being the outstanding example of
>    an IOS process being made its own stand-alone routing daemon".
> 
>  - negative points: RSP720 has a much faster CPU, and that's something
>    where the Sup720(-10G) could need some improvement...
> 
> Overall, we feel that *for us*, 6500+SX software has been the right
> decision.