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Re: GSR, 7600, Juniper M?, oh my!

  • From: Tom (UnitedLayer)
  • Date: Tue Jan 06 20:05:21 2004 
On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, bcm wrote:
> But where to go?  The Cisco GSR platform seems a logical choice, but
> their new 7600 series units are attractive for their cost.

7600's have all the craptacularity of 6500 switches, because thats what
they are, I would reccomend against them.

Buying GSR's is probably the right replacement for 7500's if you want to
stick with Cisco.

> Juniper may also have a place at this end of the processing spectrum.
> I'd also like to ensure that the new platform supports doing CAR and
> ACLs at line rate, given the client base.

Then you'll be wanting J boxes then, cuz Cisco doesn't do that very well
from my experience.