[f-nsp] Difference between modules with and without -A (ironcore)

[Glenn Tan]

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I'm also interested in this.

A supplier told me a while back that the -A cards have faster
processors and the management cards might take more RAM than the
non -A cards, but I would love to know if there will be a significant
performance boost if -A cards are used.

Cheers!

Monday, May 16, 2005, 9:41:33 PM, you wrote/Sie schrieben:

ggn> Dear colleagues,

ggn> I've taken a look at some ironcore-modules for a bigiron and found out that
ggn> there seem to be the same types of modules with and without an -A in the
ggn> part-number. What's the difference between them? Someone told me that the
ggn> modules with -A have a faster bus speed but I don't know what's the real
ggn> impact of the bus speed. Will the bigiron switch faster or something like
ggn> that or is layer3-forwarding being accelerated?

ggn> Thanks for your feedback in advance,
ggn> Gunther

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Best Regards,

Glenn Tan
Senior Network Manager
Network Operations/Engineering
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