Hi, On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 04:26:14PM +0800, Mark Tinka wrote: > Glad we never did buy these platforms. I'd be kicking myself > right about now.
Given the alternatives at the time, I still think we go the right choice
- "lots of port, lots of forwarding power, affordable price". We knew
that there were hardware limitations (VLAN space, netflow/tcp flags) but
the alternatives - GSR, CRS-1, Juniper M-Series - would have been
very much unaffordable for the number of GE ports we wanted to have
there.
The thing that really sucks about 6500/7600 is the BU politics, and
splitting development resources to make "two half-heartedly supported
platforms" out of "one great one".
For the next round of purchases, I'm not sure what we'll end up at. All
"real routers" from $C tend to be a bit on the expensive side of things,
so we might go for "just a switch" from $J - the MXes really look
promising... and less politics there.
gert
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