The WS-X6704-10GE has:
- Xenpacks
- only 16MB buffers per port compared to 200MB on WS-X6708
- is about 5 years old. I remember this was the first 10G card we used
in 6500 back in 2005/6
- traditionally targeted for LAN and DC segment with simple/none QoS
-> hence the QoS implementation is simple based on WRR - see
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/solutions/Enterprise/Video/tpqoscampus.html#wp1072698
- needs a DFC card for ingress 8q8t - see
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/solutions/Enterprise/Video/tpqoscampus.html#wp1072698

Therefore a much better alternative is WS-X6708 or even WS-X6716.
However bare in mind that these are also "LAN" cards therefore might
not suite your QoS needs. For general QoS architecture on C6500 see
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/switches/ps5718/ps708/prod_white_paper0900aecd803e5269.html.

Cisco quickly found out that you cannot do much "sophisticated" stuff
with cards above and came with ES product line for service provider
segment - which is the ES20 and newer ES+
(http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/solutions/Enterprise/Video/tpqoscampus.html#wp1072698).

Hope it helps,
-Pavel


On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Phil Bedard <[email protected]> wrote:
> The ES20 cards have 512MB, the SIP-600 has 256MB, but I think they both say 
> 100ms unidirectional buffering...  Is there a chance of congesting the egress 
> interfaces where you would need the larger buffers?  They all support LLQ for 
> priority traffic.
>
> Phil
>
>
> On Jan 29, 2010, at 12:22 PM, Matthew Huff wrote:
>
>> We are planning on moving a large portion of our data center to a colo 
>> facility at an financial exchange. We will be using redundant 10-GE 
>> connections from our existing pair of 7604 to a new pair of 7606 with 
>> Sup720-3B. We won't be doing MPLS/VPN, etc... Just normal L3 routing 
>> including PIM sparse mode multicast. Since a significant amount of the 
>> traffic will be market data, the line rate will be very bursty including 
>> micro-bursts. We will be setting up a series of LLQ queues with Modular QoS 
>> CLI and are interested in H-QOS, so I have some questions regarding which 
>> 10GB interface.
>>
>> The choices are:
>>
>> 1) WS-X6704-10GE. The standard linecard. TX queue of 1p7q8t. 16MB per port 
>> buffer
>> 2) 7600-ES20-10G3C. TX queue ??? (configurable ???), buffer size ???
>> 3) 7600-SIP-600 with SPA-10X1GE. TX queue ???, buffer size ???
>>
>> The SIP and ES20 may be overkill, maybe not. We aren't doing MPLS or VRF, or 
>> QinQ or any other tunneling, but we need the most flexible, best 10GB WAN 
>> interface that can help us deal with bursting/QOS.
>>
>> Any experiences, suggestions, warnings...?
>>
>> ----
>> Matthew Huff       | One Manhattanville Rd
>> OTA Management LLC | Purchase, NY 10577
>> http://www.ox.com  | Phone: 914-460-4039
>> aim: matthewbhuff  | Fax:   914-460-4139
>>
>>
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