[c-nsp] 6509-NEB-A

[Blake Pfankuch]

We have 7203BXL sup's currently, however these switches we think were put in early 2005.  We definitely will have a large amount of 10gbit coming soon and with Cisco announcing that the 7203BXL EOL announcement, that means we want to be off them by end of SW Maintenance Date (Feb/11/2014).  

Addressing the Nexus 5000 concern, we have 8x 48 port line cards in each 6509.  Full.  Which in my opinion makes the 5000 undersized for our core switching.  Yes FEX modules are cool, but we also have our dist layer to contend with and that's 4x 4506 with 5 full 48 port card too.

I guess I should have phrased my question a little better.  Given that the existing 6509's we have are 6+ year old chassis' and have soon to be End of Life Sup's (within 18 months), opinion based, is it justifiable to replace the sup's and line cards, or just bit the bullet and replace them with nexus?  Or is jumping to the 6509-E still considered a justifiable move? Anyone else out there in a similar situation considering a similar jump?

Thanks,
Blake


-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Church [mailto:chuckchurch at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 1:53 PM
To: Blake Pfankuch; cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: RE: [c-nsp] 6509-NEB-A

Which Sups?  I believe the Sup2T needs an E chassis, but the 720 will work with older ones.  The 720s are supported for 2 more years FYI.  The other modules might be nearing end of SW support though, depending on what you have...

Chuck


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Blake Pfankuch
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 3:38 PM
To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: [c-nsp] 6509-NEB-A

We are currently looking at replacing our datacenter core.  Currently we have 2 6509-NEB-A's in core, and we are trying to weigh options on either upgrading sup's line cards to go 10gbit or looking at Nexus gear.  Obviously there is a little bit of dollar pain when even thinking nexus so I am trying to investigate a lower dollar thought.  We have to stay on something current so the next thing that came up is EOL/EOS on the 6509-NEB-A. Has anyone heard anything on when this might hit for the 6509-NEB-A platform?  We know our sup's go EOL in about a month, but I'm not finding anything on the 6509-NEB-A specifically.

Thanks!

Blake
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