Am i missing here a important point of feature support? In my world a 7600 is much better placed on the core than on the edge (as long it's about ethernet).
Beeing a edge-router normally needs more brain than beeing a stupid IGP/PIM/MPLS-"Switch". Just my 2 cents. christian Quoting Kim Onnel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Its for a simple fact, it was not designed to do so and you might get > different performance and the roadmap inside the BU would be different and > the support from TAC as well. > > Plus it would be unfair to compare price and performance of 7600 to an M320 > and Juniper would never put an M7i or M10 as P, so its all about Positioning > not just 'pure technical' judgement. > > My 0.2$ > > On Feb 12, 2008 1:23 PM, Peter Rathlev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 12:38 +0200, Mauritz lewies wrote: >> > Has anyone used the 7609's (SUP720) as P layer devices in their MPLS >> > networks? >> >> We use some 7604/Sup720 with 6700 LAN cards in a Metro Ethernet setup, >> no problems. >> >> > Cisco seems to keep rejecting this idea, but can't give me valid >> > answers why. >> >> They just say "No!" or what? Is it because they won't support a P >> configuration? >> >> > The problem is that buying a GSR or CRS just doesn't make sense if the >> > core will always be Ethernet and currently our core will take at least >> > 5 years to get to close to 10Gbps >> >> Well, the 7600 can do 10G Ethernet fine. And if you'd need anything >> other than Ethernet, the SIP-cards are there for you. >> >> If you don't need anything advanced I can't see why the 7600 isn't a >> good idea. I'm not sure, but AFAIK it can do QoS queuing and scheduling >> on MPLS EXP bits, and it supports MPLS TE, so from my point of view it'd >> be a "perfect" P-box. Just my €.02. :-) >> >> Regards, >> Peter >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] >> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp >> archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ >> > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
