[c-nsp] Opinions about the next 6500/7600

[David Rothera]

Nowadays we are looking at installing ASR10k's to replace our older 7600's
but I suppose it depends on your traffic requirements...

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Drew Weaver <drew.weaver at thenap.com> wrote:

> Howdy,
>
> I think most folks can agree that the amount of traffic on the Internet is
> being carried by 6500/7600 series gear is probably a pretty big percentage.
> This is most likely mainly due to cost, density, and performance (despite
> their flaws). The other nice thing about them is that they are everywhere,
> so they have a good community of users.
>
> What new platform from Cisco or whomever do you think is, or will become
> the "next 6500/7600" in terms of how many companies are going to use them,
> performance, cost, density? I don't have any hard numbers to back this up
> (aside from earnings numbers from Cisco) but I'm guessing the number of
> Nexus 7000s replacing 6500s has been pretty disappointing to Cisco.
>
> So is the 6500 = Nexus 7000 and the 7600 = ASR 9K or does the flow chart
> skew?
>
> thanks,
> -Drew
>
>
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