On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 2:12 AM, Gert Doering <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 11:59:33PM -0500, root net wrote: > > We will probably go the conventional L3 switch way with the Cisco 65xx > and > > a major sup. > > If you have any recommendations they are welcomed for this. > > Doing 2.5G SDH/SONET on the 6500 is way expensive. For GigE and a > limited amount of 10GE ports it's a nice box. > > Read up the various discussions in the c-nsp archives about limitations > and drawbacks of the architecture, though - it's a switch with routing > bolted on, and it shows in some places. > > (Nevertheless it's a trusty workhose, all our network runs on 6500s > except for the lower-speed access stuff (E1, E3, STM1) which is on 7200s) > > Thanks for your insight. That's exactly what I've been doing. I'm going to keep things Ethernet. :) Interesting model and have had many friends say they run 6500s over anything else. Again, thanks. _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
