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Re: "2M today, 10M with no change in technology"? An informal survey.
- From: John A. Kilpatrick
- Date: Mon Aug 27 21:29:21 2007
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Jon Lewis wrote:
Of course there are other reasons to upgrade (better CPU, MPLS, IPv6, etc.),
Now if this was a dust old MSFC2 that was like 5 years old I'd say ok.
The problem is twofold:
1. Cisco is still selling the 7600 with the Sup32 bundle (which is
what we bought) and saying you can take a full route table on it. I could
already do MPLS and IPv6 on this box. This is pretty new hardware.
2. The only thing I could buy is the top of the line Sup720 3BXL.
Ok, fine, but I don't need mega-super-d00per backplane speed. I just need
more TCAM like Christoper Walken needs more cowbell. Cisco needs to have
a reasonable solution to this problem - especially if they want to keep
selling the 7600 as a router.
If I end up upgrading because of this it will probably be a forklift
upgrade to another platform. And there's no guarantee that it would be a
Cisco one.
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