Cisco Router best for full BGP on a sub 5K bidget 7500 7200 orother vendor ?

Mon Apr 26 09:31:32 UTC 2004

On Sun, 25 Apr 2004, Alexander Hagen wrote:

> I was surprised by the similarities between the 7507 and 7513. Why EOL
> the one device that has a pleasing form factor ? There are MANY
> providers who would be quite happy with ~ 600 mbps? That's a lot of
> billings...

>From past experience there is no way you can get a 7507 to switch 600Mbps..

As for EOL, not sure.. the only deployments I've seen lately of 75xx have been 
as aggregators for WAN circuits and theres usually a GSR doing the work behind 
it, perhaps people are still buying 7513s for their card capacity?

Steve

> 
> Alexander Hagen
> Etheric Networks Incorporated, A California Corporation
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rafi Sadowsky [mailto:rafi-nanog at meron.openu.ac.il] 
> Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2004 9:38 PM
> To: Alexander Hagen
> Cc: 'Rafi Sadowsky'; North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes
> Subject: RE: Cisco Router best for full BGP on a sub 5K bidget 7500 7200
> orother vendor ?
> 
> 
> Hi Alexander 
> 
>  I'm not sure what you're trying to say 
> You asked why the Cisco website tool won't give you a 7505 as a config
> option I replied that it's EOL - with a quote from Cisco website
> 
>  All I see in the HTML table you sent is that the 7507(or 7513) is
> better
> than a 7505 - is there a non-obvious point I missed ?
> 
> 
> 