GSR, 7600, Juniper M?, oh my!
Neil J. McRae
neil at DOMINO.ORG
Wed Jan 7 08:27:29 UTC 2004
> 7500s? In 2004? Throw those things in the trash where they belong. It's
> always amazing to me how many people will cling to obsolete things for
> years just because it is what they know.
Don't agree with this. For E1/T1 access these boxes are fine. Yes
they are long in the tooth but they are quite capable. I wouldn't spend
a huge amount of time or money trying to make them do anything else though.
> Even a Juniper M5 will do 16 OC3's with line rate filtering and
> forwarding. There are probably a dozen design considerations based on
> requirements you haven't described, but if you're doing primarily sonet,
> 7600 isn't really the way to go.
Depends on what "primarily sonet" means.
Regards,
Neil.
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