RE: Cisco 7200 VXR with NPE-400 (was RE: The market must be coming back)

2002-05-22 Thread Heath_Dieckert
]] Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 12:12 AM To: Adam Rothschild Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cisco 7200 VXR with NPE-400 (was RE: The market must be coming back) Adam: [...] Sort of like buying a GbE interface for a 7200 (It only get's 10% throughput... Why waste the money, just buy FE!). How

RE: Cisco 7200 VXR with NPE-400 (was RE: The market must be coming back)

2002-05-22 Thread Ralph Doncaster
Based on our testing it looks like it all has to do with packet size. With small packets the throughput is very low. With what Cisco calls an internet mix of packet sizes throughput is much better. When doing max MTU packets, the throughput is of course the best. The other thing I've

RE: Cisco 7200 VXR with NPE-400 (was RE: The market must be coming back)

2002-05-22 Thread Daniska Tomas
first. -Original Message- From: Ralph Doncaster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 22. mája 2002 16:15 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Cisco 7200 VXR with NPE-400 (was RE: The market must be coming back) Based on our testing it looks like it all has

RE: The business side of the coin. WAS RE: The market must be coming back

2002-05-22 Thread Marc Pierrat
How long has this company been in business? Are they using open standards? Do they have knowledgeable tech support? ..and so on. Good startups make great partners, and a great partner will have crisp and compelling answers to these questions that CFO-types like, even before you start to

RE: The market must be coming back

2002-05-21 Thread Gary
Chance: that want 4 X 10 GbE on each module (8 slot chassis). I expect this will be a perfect 40G throughput since I've never seen us do anything less than perfect (been working here since August). Oh phuleeese Stop drinking your own Kool-Aid(tm). To honestly suggest that

RE: Cisco 7200 VXR with NPE-400 (was RE: The market must be coming back)

2002-05-21 Thread Gary
Richard: And if^H^Hwhen you run into a really fun issue, don't even think about calling Foundry TAC after hours, all you'll get is someone's house with their screaming kids in the background. Our TAC is 24/7 and has been 24/7 for years. I work in the Support Center for Japan. We have not

Re: Cisco 7200 VXR with NPE-400 (was RE: The market must be coming back)

2002-05-21 Thread Adam Rothschild
On 2002-05-21-01:12:25, Gary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I used a Cisco 7200 VXR with NPE-400. I used two different 7200's with the exact same results. Bidirectional throughput on 1GbE is a fraction above 10%. Unidirectional is a bit better (23%). Singl line ACL drops it to 8% (permit ip

Re: Cisco 7200 VXR with NPE-400 (was RE: The market must be coming back)

2002-05-21 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 04:55:51PM +0900, Gary wrote: Richard: And if^H^Hwhen you run into a really fun issue, don't even think about calling Foundry TAC after hours, all you'll get is someone's house with their screaming kids in the background. Our TAC is 24/7 and has been 24/7 for

The business side of the coin. WAS RE: The market must be coming back

2002-05-21 Thread Christopher J. Wolff
21, 2002 12:37 AM To: Richard A Steenbergen Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: The market must be coming back Richard: Personally I would say that Foundry does EVERYTHING less than perfect. Nearly everyone I'm aware of (including myself) who has had to misfortune to try and use their devices

RE: The business side of the coin. WAS RE: The market must be coming back

2002-05-21 Thread Christopher J. Wolff
: The market must be coming back On Tue, 21 May 2002, Christopher J. Wolff wrote: So, regardless of whether the hardware is the fastest thing on the block, pushing 10 nanobits at a megaflop, you can look like a fool if you don't consider the business repercussions of the vendor you choose

The market must be coming back

2002-05-20 Thread Christopher J. Wolff
Everyone's so busy there hasn't been a peep on here in weeks. Regards, Christopher J. Wolff, VP CIO Broadband Laboratories http://www.bblabs.com

Re: The market must be coming back

2002-05-20 Thread Scott Granados
Actually, there has been a lot of peeping! On Mon, 20 May 2002, Christopher J. Wolff wrote: Everyone's so busy there hasn't been a peep on here in weeks. Regards, Christopher J. Wolff, VP CIO Broadband Laboratories http://www.bblabs.com

Re: The market must be coming back

2002-05-20 Thread dre
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 05:27:20PM -0700, Christopher J. Wolff wrote: Everyone's so busy there hasn't been a peep on here in weeks. Regards, Christopher J. Wolff, VP CIO Nah, we're just not allowed to post here anymore. Inside joke with myself, please ignore ; -dre

RE: The market must be coming back

2002-05-20 Thread Gary
Chris: I've been thinking about leasing some dark fiber and running one of the new 10gigE blades for the Cat 6500 chassis. Be careful here. Last I tested (at one of our channels that also resells Cisco) is that the 10GbE on the Catalyst 6500 hasn't broken 4G throughput yet. Sort of like

RE: The market must be coming back

2002-05-20 Thread Chance Whaley
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Gary that want 4 X 10 GbE on each module (8 slot chassis). I expect this will be a perfect 40G throughput since I've never seen us do anything less than perfect (been working here since

Re: The market must be coming back

2002-05-20 Thread Adam Rothschild
On 2002-05-21-00:14:30, Gary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Sort of like buying a GbE interface for a 7200 (It only get's 10% throughput... Why waste the money, just buy FE!). How did the Foundry test lab arrive at those figures, and what substances were consumed at the time? I'd say 300+

Re: The market must be coming back

2002-05-20 Thread Avleen Vig
On Mon, 20 May 2002, Christopher J. Wolff wrote: Everyone's so busy there hasn't been a peep on here in weeks. I don't know.. it's been fairly chatty on here. At times more so and more often on a single thread than usual. One report claims that the job boards have exploded in parts of the

Re: The market must be coming back

2002-05-20 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 10:33:32PM -0600, Chance Whaley wrote: Oh phuleeese Stop drinking your own Kool-Aid(tm). To honestly suggest that Foundry, or any other vendor for that matter, never does 'anything less than perfect' is nothing less than idiotic. If Foundry does things so

Re: Cisco 7200 VXR with NPE-400 (was RE: The market must be coming back)

2002-05-20 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 07:27:35AM +0200, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: I have personally seen a 7200 with PXF-chip and two PA-GE do NAT at 300megabit with a few (10-15) ftp streams going thru it. With more random load it wouldn't go much above 100 meg, though. I have done 400Mbit with an

RE: The market must be coming back

2002-05-20 Thread Christopher J. Wolff
Jason, Are you espousing Juniper or Foundry for 10ge? -Original Message- From: Jason LeBlanc [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 9:35 PM To: Gary; Christopher J. Wolff Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: The market must be coming back Juniper. Sorry I'm a fan