rabbit. ;-) Now excuse me while I soak my hands in bleach for having typed
I'd hate to hear what you have to do if you read that out loud. :)
Just to be on-topic:
I think the question of what equipment the network is running for the purposes of a customer savvy enough to know the difference between a 12000 network or a 7xxx network or what-have-you, would be able to mitigate a vast many of these concerns by being multihomed correctly. Such a customer would be able to see significant cost improvements and not see much in the way of penalties -- e.g. reconvergence issues. Two pieces of equipment with low MTBFs may exceed a single piece of equipment with a high MTBF's availability overall.
On-topic, but slightly different:
Other than packet buffer depths and some theoretical ACL limits, is there any reason why a 7600 network would be worse than a 12000 built one? MTBF, reconvergence and other issues should all be pretty nice and like others have mentioned packet buffers are not necessarily a good thing <tm>. Throughput-wise, a 7600 should be able to hold its own against a 12000 provided we are talking about 40Gb/s blades and SUP720s.
Deepak Jain AiNET
