[c-nsp] Quick 6500 question...

Shardul Kerkar SKerkar at accessline.com
Tue Feb 7 13:05:22 EST 2012


We recently found out from Cisco that the plain-old 6509 is not smartnet-able anymore. Might be something you want to consider.

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From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Bill Wade
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 9:39 AM
To: Phil Mayers; cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Quick 6500 question...

Also the 6513E backplane provides 80Gb (dual fabric channels) for each slot whereas the 6513 is limited to 40Gb in slots 1-8.




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 From: Phil Mayers <p.mayers at imperial.ac.uk>
To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Sent: Tuesday, February 7, 2012 12:19 PM
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Quick 6500 question...
 
On 07/02/12 15:30, Justin M. Streiner wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Feb 2012, Jeff Kell wrote:
>
>> Quick reality check...
>>
>> Is the difference in the E-series chassis only in available power? 
>> Has nothing to do with backplane bandwidth?
>
> The non-E chassis only has 40G per slot to the backplane, where the E 
> chassis has 80G per slot. IIRC the Sup2T and 6900-series blades will 
> only work in an E chassis. I don't have any Sup2Ts or 6900s to verify that.

This is correct.
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