North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: The Gorgon's Knot. Was: Re: Verio Peering Question
The original 7000s (with SP if anyone remebers that beast) were slower even that AGS/+ ... 7000s are probably the worst-designed piece of hardware from Cisco. The only benefit of replacing AGS/+ es at the time 7000 was introduced was that some smarthead designed AGS/+ w/o enough address leads, so they topped at 16Mb of RAM. --vadim PS Longevity-speaking - it is not technology which really matters, it is architecture. You can buy a box now which you can still be using 10 years later, given the exponential traffic growth. Won't cost you arm and leg, too. On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Daniel Golding wrote: > > There is also a point that many folks may be missing. The 7200 and 7500 > routers, while ubiquitious, are not new models. These are 5 year-old > devices, which have been progressively retrofitted with new CPUs, and are > based on even older technology. > > There have been assertions made that telco equipment is expected to last for > 20 years - this is true. However, we are at a much later stage in the > maturity of voice phone switches. It will take a few more (albeit costly) > cycles of equipment replacement for routers to last anywhere near that long. > However, for computing equipment, the 7xxx class of routers has aged quite > well. How many of us are running with 5 year-old PCs on our desks? Now, > contrast this to how many of us have 7200s or 7500s in our networks... > > - Dan
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