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Gino A. Villarini [email protected] Aeronet Wireless Broadband Corp. tel 787.273.4143 fax 787.273.4145 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of RickG Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 3:11 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] 10 GigE Over the years, I've done a lot of work for Fortune 1000 companies. One time, as an alternative to Cisco, I suggested another product and was laughed out of the room. -RickG On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 8:12 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> All the hard core routing and switching experts I know laugh when >> someone suggests Cisco. >> >> Cisco is like the WalMart of networking equipment. If you need >> something, chances are that they have something there that will >> mostly do what it is that you need. But if you need something for >> some specialized need, then chances are you need to go to Juniper, >> Foundry, Nortel, etc. >> > Of course if you had sent the above to the NANOG list they would be > laughing at you. Cisco and Juniper alone are the reining champs of the > high-end routing world. Foundry and Nortel are simply not even considered. > Right now, the Cisco CRS-1 is considered the best equipment available. > > Regardless, talking about super high-end routers when Mike is only > looking for a few 10 GigE ports is silly. A Cisco 6500/7600 with > sup720-3bxl along with your 10 GigE card of choice is typically what is > deployed today. > There is a newer option from Cisco using one of the ASR series routers. > Those will cost you roughly $25k to get started in any reasonable > configuration. Whereas the sup720-3bxl option will likely cost you > only $25k well equiped with a variety of ports. I would guess a > sup720-3bxl platform with 48 10/100/1000 ports, 48 SFP ports, and 4 10 > GigE ports would run about $30k used. > > It is worth noting that the sup720-3bxl has enough TCAM to support up > to 1 million routes and has a backplane that can support 720Gbps. > > -Matt > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
