[c-nsp] 7600 Owners, failure stats wanted

[Blake Dunlap]

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 06:19, James Bensley <jwbensley at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I'm now lab'ing up a 7609-R for deployment in the near future. It has
> a single RSP720-3CXL-GE in it. What I want to know is, all of you that
> have or do run 7600's, what are your real world failure rates of the
> RSP modules?
>
> I can have dual RSPs but how likely are they too fail? I want to know
> from 7600's owners/managers out there, how many SUPs or RSPs have you
> had fail on you (or not if non have failed on you), and how long were
> they in service before they failed (or how long were they in service
> without failing, if that is the case for you)?
>
> Are they more likely to fail the other line cards? It doesn't seem
> very common practice to have to of every card in the chassis and
> provide customers with a port on two switching modules for example, so
> why dual RSPs? Are they *that* much more likely to fail?
>
>
You had me until this line. Discrete dual ports is *very* common when
people desire HA and it isn't a multihoming situation.


> Thanks for your time,
> --
> James. <http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/>


-Blake