Let me clarify the CES and CER architectures real quick. As Nick nicely said, the fixed form factor routers are designed with feature scalability and cost trade-offs to provide a lower port price vs. a modular chassis.
The NPUs are merchant silicon, but each router also has an FPGA that handles various control plane packets that need to be processed with subsecond latency (for example, we are adding BFD hardware assist in 5.6). We hear your negative feedback about feature licensing. Greg (works for Brocade) (as a product management person) -- Greg Hankins <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ foundry-nsp mailing list [email protected] http://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/foundry-nsp
