Gert, good thinking. I keep forgetting about the c7200 platform. There are some good deals on ones with the NPE200s in them. Heck, cheap enough to have a spare ...
Thanks again and take care, -graham On 11/26/09 12:08 PM, "Gert Doering" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:09:12PM -0600, Graham Wooden wrote: >> Just wanted to confirm before I spend the money .... >> >> I am looking at the WAN card PA-MC-8T1 for some T1 aggregation points, >> inserted into FlexWAN/6500. As I am reading the data sheet for it, it looks >> like it can do non-channelized connections, right? Need to consolidate down >> some non-fractional/channelized T1s... > > I have no experience with the PA-MC-8T1, but we use a lot of MC-8E1s in > our network. It can do "full rate" E1s (1984 time slots) and of course > sub-rate. The total number of interfaces is limited to a number that I > forgot, so you can't do 8 x 30 DS0 interfaces - what we did at the time > was to run 6x full rate and 2x channelized E1s on them. > > Now for the FlexWAN: seriously reconsider whether you want to go there, > or whether you want to get a used 7200 instead and just put it on top > of the 6500, giving you 4 or 6 PA slots for the price of a single FlexWAN > with two slots. The problem with the FlexWAN is not that it wouldn't work, > but that Cisco has a nasty habit of discontinueing support for 6500 blades > that are less-than-mainstream in new IOS trains - FlexWAN is already > unsupported in most recent IOS versions (SXH, I think, dropped FW support) > and you would need to use "enhanced FlexWAN". > > (I certainly can understand that old hardware needs to die at some point, > but if all you have is a 6500, and you need SXH/SXI to support one half > of your hardware, and 'no more recent than SXF' to support the *other* > half, you're sort of stuck in "I hate Cisco" land. If you have multiple > baskets, it's much easier to balance IOS reality vs. real world needs) > > ((I also think the FlexWAN was a very nice idea. Fortunately enough, > for the longest time it was just too expensive to be more interesting > than "just get another 7200" - and when we saw that it was already being > dropped, we congratulated ourselves for not having fallen into every single > 6500 BU trap)) > > gert _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
