[c-nsp] SXJ - The good, the bad, the ugly?

[chiel]

I see that there is a SXJ1 available, is anybody running this version
successfully in production (with BGP and IPv6)? Or should i stick to
SXI7 for now?


On 05/05/2011 12:09 AM, Mack McBride wrote:
> IOS XE isn't great for modularity but it definitely improves on monolithic IOS.
> The division into 8 'chunks' on the ASR 1000 is fairly usable.
> Minor version upgrades of the individual packages have gone smoothly.
> I don't know how they would do IOS XE for the 6500/7600.
>
> The ASR 9K runs XR and is the logical successor to the 7600.
> XR has real modularity and the 9K is fairly mature for the age of the platform.
>
> The 6500 platform really doesn't have a logical successor :(
> At some point I am guessing the Nexus 7K is supposed to be it but the maturity is still lacking.
>
> Mack
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Gert Doering
> Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 2:10 AM
> To: Seth Mattinen
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> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] SXJ - The good, the bad, the ugly?
>
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 09:32:32AM -0700, Seth Mattinen wrote:
>> Does this mean they gave up on modular classic IOS?
> Seems like it.  But given how pathetic that effort was - no buy-in from any other BUs, thus quite limited resources for development, and thus no effective modularity at all, except for fully-modular CDP (yay!) - this was a logical step to expect.
>
> It's frustrating me quite some, especially since we bought 6500/Sup720 instead of 7600/RSP720 specifically because we wanted modularity - but yeah, Cisco politics.
>
> Let's see whether IOS XE will ever mature out of "oh, yes, we have a fully modular operating system and then there's the IOS process running as a single big blob on top of it!"...
>
> gert
>
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