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

[Jonas Frey]

Hi,

unfortunatly this is not true, its a simple sales "lie".
The -A cards have newer chipsets but do not have/give any new features
or speed gains. They are a little bit more expensive (on the grey
market) due to them beeing newer, meaning they wont fail as fast as
older chips (if they ever fail...).

Regards,
Jonas

On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 22:32, Glenn Tan wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: MD5
> 
> 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
> 
> ggn> _______________________________________________
> ggn> foundry-nsp mailing list
> ggn> foundry-nsp at puck.nether.net
> ggn> http://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/foundry-nsp
> 
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Glenn Tan
> Senior Network Manager
> Network Operations/Engineering
> ***********************************
> Intermedia Network Services Pte Ltd
> Tel: +65 98207885
> Fax: +65 65470933
> http://www.intermedia.com.sg
> ***********************************
> 
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Version: 2.6
> 
> iQCVAwUAQokDZWKcKk2+XUMDAQFVxAP+MnO1BcMOGDK3lLKd+xDlYbigumHEkOd+
> UfvejDdOIp/J2KvAv+AzBH1og8nlmkxYcKetYDTwluxxYC6F63aBiiL85jmcL16Z
> 1IENq/ITFNraIQDjLGVgAy0UhZIphDF61JO+gDLoLxYMvBpxshdyCkq7NiPOw5L6
> qFhKcOphGYg=
> =iO5B
> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
> 
> _______________________________________________
> foundry-nsp mailing list
> foundry-nsp at puck.nether.net
> http://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/foundry-nsp