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Stephen -- i simply attached a date after the title. BTW - backplane capacity is not the same as user goodput capacity; and ethernet switch is not the same as a router. Cisco products historically demonstrated that quite clearly. And i'm working for a cisco competitor now (after the acquisition of GeoTel) and have no incentive to promote newer cisco's products :) --vadim Stephen Sprunk <[email protected]> wrote: >Perhaps you could update this paper to reflect current products, since you >specifically name vendors and their products' limitations without explicitly >listing any model numbers or dates? >For instance, the Cisco GSR (aka 12000) router has a non-blocking backplane >capacity of 40Gbit/s, where you list a maximum backplane capacity of >0.7Gbit/s. Also, the Cisco 6500 switch has a non-blocking backplane >capacity of 256Gbit/s and can currently hold up to 130 GigE ports. This >shows two orders of magnitude growth in capacity since your paper was >written, and that's not counting the products I can't tell you about yet :) >While I understand that the actual numbers are mostly irrelevant to the >paper, it would be appreciated if you'd either update the numbers or put in >a footnote recognizing that your numbers are out of date. >Stephen > | | Stephen Sprunk, K5SSS, CCIE #3723 > :|: :|: NSA, Network Consulting Engineer > :|||: :|||: 14875 Landmark Blvd #400; Dallas, TX >.:|||||||:..:|||||||:. Pager: 800-365-4578 / 800-901-6078 >C I S C O S Y S T E M S Email: [email protected]
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