North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: GSR, 7600, Juniper M?, oh my!
> > not trying to defend the 7500 platform, it's obsolete all right. > > However, free is music to my ears. > > What about longer term maintenance issues? Is the 7500 not scheduled for > EOL from Cisco 'soon' ? So, purchasing 7500 bits that might be dropped by > 'normal' Cisco support in 1 year versus purchasing some other hardware > that will be in support longer might pay out in the longer term? They recently refreshed the platform with RSP16, VIP8, and MX. It's still a viable platform for many medium size providers. I personally wouldn't use it for anything passing more than a couple hundred megs (at absolute most), but we have plenty of nodes like that. Actually, we've been seeing a trend where we are replacing 4700's with 7505/7's. -- Alex Rubenstein, AR97, K2AHR, [email protected], latency, Al Reuben -- -- Net Access Corporation, 800-NET-ME-36, http://www.nac.net --
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