[c-nsp] in praise of the cat6500 Re: Flow tools

[Phil Mayers]

Alessandra Forti <Alessandra.Forti at cern.ch> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I got some money to upgrade my network infrastructure from 1Gbps to
>10Gbps.
>
>At the moment I have a cat6509E with a Sup720. This system has been 
>working fine for 6 years. The upgrade will have to last a similar
>number 
>of years and our main requirement is throughput with minimal routing if
>

The 6[78]16 cards are only 40g. Each 4 port group has 10g. We have some, and frankly they're a bit awkward because of this.

I would seriously look into the 6908 cards if you want the throughput.
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