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Re: Anyone Deployed Ascend's GRF IP Switch?

  • From: Lane Patterson
  • Date: Fri Aug 22 23:01:30 1997 
Talk to Nathan Stratton at Netrail.  He's our collective test case :-)

Aren't you looking at Cisco's BFR too?

-Lane

On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, Christofer Hoff wrote:

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> We are in the development phase of engineering the deployment of 
> approximately
> 60 POPs throughout the US.  Our 'standard' configuration is normally 
> based upon
> cisco equipment and more often than not consists of a 7513 connected 
> to a Catalyst
> 5000/5500 via FDDI with the various internal LAN segments switched
> from there via FD 100BaseTX.
> 
> We've begun to explore the viability of deploying the GRF for several 
> reasons,
> not the least of which is cost and performance.  Given (and taken 
> with a grain
> of salt) the apparent performance differential between the cisco 7513 
> and the 
> Ascend GRF (the GRF outperforms the 7513 substantially in our tests,) 
> my
> concerns are more operations-related. 
> 
> The GRF DOES support the 'full' implementation (including extensions) 
> of 
> BGP4 and the other 'vanilla' TCP services that you'd come to expect 
> from
> a router (er, layer 3 switch?) of this caliber.  Since it's NOT a 
> cisco, 
> we'd have to deviate and not utilize EIGRP as our IGP of choice, and 
> deploy
> OSPF which poses its own set of issues.
> 
> SO, the bottom line...has anyone else deployed multiple GRF400's with 
> success.  
> Ascend will tell you that UUNET has deployed (or is going to) a 
> hundred or so.
> I want to talk to people USING the technology, not thinking about it.
> 
> Your comments and opinions are welcomed.
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Christofer Hoff
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