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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