[f-nsp] Fw: Looking for throughput infos

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>> -----Original Message-----
> From: foundry-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
> [mailto:foundry-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Gerald Krause
> Sent: September 14, 2006 4:31 PM
> To: foundry-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [f-nsp] Looking for throughput infos
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> " We are moving away from Foundry in favour of Cisco 6500 with Sup32s 
> which really packs a punch, has a  lot more features and on top of it is 
> cheaper than our old BI4ks. I recommend everyone else to do the same."
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Your joking right?  The Sup32 uses a 32Gbps shared bus backplane with a 
maximum forwarding capacity of 15Mpps.  The performance is worse than the 
BI4Ks that were designed 10 years ago.  In fact the Sup32 is not even as 
good as the Sup2 because it does not support DFCs.

Keep in mind that 32Gbps is not throughput.  The actual capacity is 15Mpps 
divided by 1.488 equals about 10Gbps for the entire chassis.  I could buy a 
D-Link for a few hundred bucks that blows it away.