On Sunday, December 18, 2011 03:06:18 AM Andrew Miehs wrote: > Apart from running something like running lots of E1s, > x21 interfaces I would no longer purchase a new 7200. As > for second hand boxes - if you can get a service > contract for them, ok.
Same. If we're buying for small-to-medium Ethernet requirements, the ASR1000's are the platform to pick on the Cisco side of things. If we need low-speed non-Ethernet, the 7200 is hard to beat, even today. > I still remember a friend of mine buying 4x 7500s filled > with VIPs and ?Supervisors?… Every card, and even the > chassis all had problems! But it was not that the cards > didn't work - they booted, came on line, and then > crashed after 2 days, etc. He spent 6 months debugging > the issues with these boxes due to that and EVERY single > piece needed replacing. Needless to say, it ended up > costing the company more than it would have to buy new. I don't think it would be fair to compare the 7500 to the 7200. They may share port adapters, but that's about it. The NPE-G1 and NPE-G2 on SRE are pretty modern if you're not looking at pushing lots of bandwidth. It's a shame the platform has been discontinued in the long-term, but it's still has miles to run in the short-to-medium term. Mark.
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