North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Anyone Deployed Ascend's GRF IP Switch?
Why, you know where to get one? And even if they were out, I'm not sure I'm want to deploy anything in a 60 node network pushing that much data which was so new. Brian >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: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> 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 >> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 >> Charset: noconv >> >> iQA/AwUBM/3KcnRoVZYHVpX1EQKKwgCgsnu30mTvCXZRyH68TOWeq3z0uZkAnj0F >> Kmgl0te7Wq6AzsQ1/0GjMV5N >> =d5NC >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> >> ,,, >> (o-o) >> ------.oOO--(_)--OOo.--------------------------------- >> Christofer L. Hoff \ No true genius is >> Chief Nerd, \ possible without a >> NodeWarrior Networks, Inc \ little intelligent >> \ madness! >> [email protected] \ >> http://www.nodewarrior.net \ -Peter Uberoth >> "Nuthin' but Net!" \ >> ------------------------------------------------------ >> 310.568.1700 vox - 310.568.4766 fax >> >> > >
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