North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: is there a market for this?
FWIW, I can't confirm this at this second, but I believe that at least the cisco 7200 series routers have a three PCI bus backplane. And it is claimed to support an OC-3c VIP2 port adapter, although I haven't put mine in action to try yet (and when I do I won't be running anywhere near 155 Mbps anyway). A single VIP2 port adapter can only connect to one of the three buses, so presumably cisco believes that PCI is up to the task. I don't know what the clockrate is, and I don't know if it is 32-bit or 64-bit. > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeremiah Kristal [SMTP:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, July 21, 1997 5:40 PM > To: Chris Wilson > Cc: Perry E. Metzger; [email protected] > Subject: Re: is there a market for this? > > On Mon, 21 Jul 1997, Chris Wilson wrote: > > > Actually, I've seen a PCI-based box doing 15MByte/sec sustained > read/write > to disk, so it is possible to do it, but it's not likely to be > standard > for quite a while. I certainly think that an OC-12 card would be > overkill > though. I'm also wondering why someone who can afford an OC-x would > be > trying to save a couple bucks by using a PCI-based router. > Once you get into this type of bandwidth, I think a bus becomes a > serious > chokepoint. > >
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