[c-nsp] C6509 Fabric Switch Capacity

[Andrew Miehs]

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 11:11 PM, Nick Hilliard <nick at foobar.org> wrote:
> Alireza Soltanian wrote:
>> My questions are is What will happen if we exceed capacity(Egress or
>> Ingress) in Channel#0 of Slot#2? Will device use Capacity of Channel#1?
>
> no - the traffic will be dropped.
>
> slot 2 looks like a 6708 card.  There's been a reasonable amount of
> discussion in the past on cisco-nsp about oversubscription on this and
> other 10G line cards on the c6500/c7600 platform.  Overall, the platform
> isn't good at handling 10G.

The WS-X6708 has two fabric ASICs, 4 ports go to one ASIC, the other 4
to the other.

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/collateral/switches/catalyst-6500-series-switches/prod_white_paper0900aecd80673385.html

-- Andrew