On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 [email protected] wrote:
Thanks. I had (perhaps foolishly) assumed that moving from an NPE-G1 to a Sup720-3BXL-based platform would represent an upgrade from the 7206VXR (as well as having the advantage of bringing our Internet BGP tier in-line with the rest of our core network from a hardware perspective). When comparing the NPE-G1 to a Sup720-3BXL for the purposes of being an internet-facing BGP router am I actually proposing a backwards step?
It may not have as much CPU power as a G1, but it's a switch and was designed to switch packets at line rate...lots of them, lots more than a VXR can do. BGP convergence may go a little slower, but the platform will forward more traffic (PPS or Mbps) than the VXR.
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