North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: GSR, 7600, Juniper M?, oh my!
>> Dan Armstrong wrote: >> GSRs are useless if you are doing any kind of >> aggregation. Their traffic shaping abilities >> are embarrassing. > Neil J. McRae > Historically yes, but no longer. The latest line of > GSR cards now give them much greater capability in > this area even though it was never designed as an > access box. There still is the issue of cost though. GSR line cards are not cheap. >> 7500 is the classic aggregator. They do the job >> quite well, actually. Based on cost right now, I >> would take 10 7500s over 1 7600 anyday. > If you are just aggregating E1/T1 then I'd agree, > but the minute you need DS-3/E3/STM-1/ATM/100BaseT/ > Gige aggregation then the 7600 is a far better > choice cost wise I would put 10mbps Ethernet and possibly DS3 in the same pool as E1/T1 though; this still remains in the realm of things a 7500 does fine. I'm not trying to defend the 7500 platform, it's obsolete all right. However, free is music to my ears. Michel.
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