[c-nsp] NCS4200 - re-badged ASR920 / ASR900 ?

[Pete Templin]

Or the Nexus 5010 vs. UCS Fabric Interconnect debacle? I think there's 
one extra CPU/ASIC on the board of the FIs, and the paint color is 
different, but the code is different.


On 4/25/17 4:24 AM, Gert Doering wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 11:06:33AM +0000, CiscoNSP List wrote:
>> If feature parity between the 2 are identical....It makes no sense?
> Look at the history of the 6500/7600 split...
>
> Starting out with identical hardware, just differently coloured, sold
> by different BUs.
>
> Then start differenciating - one BU builds a faster supervisor, and
> adds a software check "if we detect that the other BU got the money
> for this chassis, refuse to boot".   The other BU starts adding nice
> OS features that you really want (but are not supported on the *other*
> chassis, then) and down the drain goes the journey.
>
> I ended up having 6500s, because we wanted IOS modularity (which turned
> out to be no good, and was discontinued), and was lacking all the newer
> control-plane(!) features the 7600 IOS received after the split...
>
>
> (cisco-nsp archives have lots of material on this)
>
> gert
>
>
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