Christopher Wolff wrote:
Several weeks ago there was a lively debate on Nanog regarding cisco
performance, if I recall correctly, one party indicated that they upgraded
from a 7206 NPE400 to a GSR and only saw a 30% improvement in CPU
utilization. That's a lot of bling bling for 30%...
Tim,
I can't speak to the 7600 series from experience (I'm using the 6509 with
MSFC2); however, my opinion is that Cisco continues to market their routers
as suitable for core routing whereas the routers are 'just acceptable' as an
edge aggregation device.
Several weeks ago there was a lively