[c-nsp] sup2T software & release notes have hit

[Simon Leinen]

Mark Tinka writes:
> Unless they can do something about that RSP720 or SUP720 for 
> the 7600 (well, they could just throw the SUP2T at the 7600, 
> but I doubt either BU will support that, hehe), folk should 
> be looking at buying the ASR9000 when thinking about new 
> 7600 purchases.

Yes, that's obviously what Cisco wants us to do.

Personally I'm with Rinse Kloek... the Catalyst 6500 with Sup 2T looks
like the most attractive upgrade path for our 7600s.  Especially the
ability to continue to do unsampled Netflow at high traffic rates and
with large tables is useful for us.

The ASR 9000 may be a more modern platform and is possibly more
scalable, but hey, the Catalyst 6500 isn't too shabby either.  And
contrary to the ASR 9000 (or the Nexus 7000 for that matter) you can
also get small chassis with the Catalyst 6500.  34 line-rate 10GE ports
in a 5U chassis makes for a nice IXP router if you ask me.  The downside
is that there may never be 100GE interfaces.  But then the 40GE options
look quite attractive.

Fortunately (well, deliberately) we don't have any ES+ or FlexWAN cards,
so we could even reuse most of our line cards.

Yes, we'd have to move back from the SR train to SX.  I don't see many
drawbacks with that.  SX got 32-bit AS numbers before SR :-P

SX is even bound to have tons of marginally useful MPLS feeeeatures,
because so many enterprise networks use MPLS these days.
-- 
Simon.