Anyone Deployed Ascend's GRF IP Switch?
Lane Patterson
lane at isi.net
Sat Aug 23 02:36:53 UTC 1997
Talk to Nathan Stratton at Netrail. He's our collective test case :-)
Aren't you looking at Cisco's BFR too?
-Lane
On Fri, 22 Aug 1997, Christofer Hoff wrote:
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> We are in the development phase of engineering the deployment of
> approximately
> 60 POPs throughout the US. Our 'standard' configuration is normally
> based upon
> cisco equipment and more often than not consists of a 7513 connected
> to a Catalyst
> 5000/5500 via FDDI with the various internal LAN segments switched
> from there via FD 100BaseTX.
>
> We've begun to explore the viability of deploying the GRF for several
> reasons,
> not the least of which is cost and performance. Given (and taken
> with a grain
> of salt) the apparent performance differential between the cisco 7513
> and the
> Ascend GRF (the GRF outperforms the 7513 substantially in our tests,)
> my
> concerns are more operations-related.
>
> The GRF DOES support the 'full' implementation (including extensions)
> of
> BGP4 and the other 'vanilla' TCP services that you'd come to expect
> from
> a router (er, layer 3 switch?) of this caliber. Since it's NOT a
> cisco,
> we'd have to deviate and not utilize EIGRP as our IGP of choice, and
> deploy
> OSPF which poses its own set of issues.
>
> SO, the bottom line...has anyone else deployed multiple GRF400's with
> success.
> Ascend will tell you that UUNET has deployed (or is going to) a
> hundred or so.
> I want to talk to people USING the technology, not thinking about it.
>
> Your comments and opinions are welcomed.
>
> TIA,
>
> Christofer Hoff
>
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