On 26/11/2009, at 5:46 AM, Łukasz Bromirski wrote: > As for something for the next-gen - 8200... competitors would like 6500 > to be dead soon, because after all those rants it still wins the deals, > it is still a platform of choice for technical not marketing reasons, > and it still, after so many years, excels in different dimensions > It is roadmapped far into the future, and there's place for it.
From a customer perspective who uses 6500s for L2/L3 aggregation in the DC and MPLS/IP core functionality, I can see them losing their shine. They are a solid platform and I do like them a lot but working with the caveats can be a pain. N7K is starting to look like a winning platform : * 2nd Gen 10GE ports will be reasonably priced * Price for line-rate 1GE-TX LC's is attractive * Switching capacity upgrade path looks fantastic * Smart guys doing smart things (like OTV) * An OS that delivers on all the broken promises of ION / Modular etc Ok, so it's missing some functionality but lots of the important stuff is being worked on. There's no service modules but personally I think thats a good thing. I still have nightmares about running Gen1 FWSM in the same chassis as a Gen1 CSM. (Here's a thought - make a good standalone firewall that can compete with Vendor J, and a good standalone loadbalancer that can compete with Vendor F ) If there's a 4 slot chassis in the 2nd generation then I could see N7K and N5K / N4K as a possible end-to-end platform for L3/MPLS core, L2/L3 aggregation, and L2 access. And it would all run the same software !!! Pinch me - I must be dreaming :) David ... _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
