[j-nsp] EX Routing Throughput

[Richard A Steenbergen]

On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 11:06:02AM +0400, Pavel Lunin wrote:
> As the other have already said, the main difference between 3200 and 4200 is
> virtual chassis. But I'd like to note that it is not just a fun gadget which
> allows to have a solid fully redundant control plane for up to 10 switches.
> You should also keep in mind that 4200 have one more PFE onboard and 2x
> 64Gbit full duplex (!) VC ports. So they have almost doubled performance in
> compare with 3200.

FYI the other differences are:

600MHz vs 1GHz PPC processor
512MB vs 1GB DRAM

Not sure if there is anything else floating around other than the PFE 
bits you mentioned, but those are what I've noticed.

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