[f-nsp] Looking for throughput infos

[Richard A Steenbergen]

On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 12:40:40PM +0200, Niels Bakker wrote:
> * kristian at spritelink.se (Kristian Larsson) [Thu 14 Sep 2006, 21:47 CEST]:
> >>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.
> 
> The hardware you're comparing has almost a decade of engineering between 
> them...

You think so? Sup32 is little more than a rebadged sup2/msfc2 (sorry thats 
msfc2*a*, its completely different after you add that "a") with some 
optional onboard interfaces (aka the only way you'll ever do 10GE on the 
thing). In exchange, it gets a hearty crippling (at least sup2 you can add 
a fabric card). Other than supporting newer IOS going forward (aka Cisco 
forcing people to pay again), Sup32 has very little going for it.

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