[c-nsp] Cisco 12008 8/40 Gigabit Link

[root net]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 2:12 AM, Gert Doering <gert at greenie.muc.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 11:59:33PM -0500, root net wrote:
> > We will probably go the conventional L3 switch way with the Cisco 65xx
> and
> > a major sup.
> > If you have any recommendations they are welcomed for this.
>
> Doing 2.5G SDH/SONET on the 6500 is way expensive.  For GigE and a
> limited amount of 10GE ports it's a nice box.
>
> Read up the various discussions in the c-nsp archives about limitations
> and drawbacks of the architecture, though - it's a switch with routing
> bolted on, and it shows in some places.
>
> (Nevertheless it's a trusty workhose, all our network runs on 6500s
> except for the lower-speed access stuff (E1, E3, STM1) which is on 7200s)
>
> Thanks for your insight. That's exactly what I've been doing. I'm going to
keep things Ethernet. :)
Interesting model and have had many friends say they run 6500s over
anything else. Again, thanks.