Re: why SFM? [7:42877]

2002-05-01 Thread MADMAN
Do you mean a Fabric enabled line cards of the SFM itself??? dave Kris Keen wrote: > > Can we determine if we have SFM cards? > > We have 2 x 6509's with Sup1A and MSFC2/PFC. We have dual 16GBIC line cards > (32 in total) and we are using ALL of them. If we have the 32gbps backplane, > and o

Re: why SFM? [7:42877]

2002-05-01 Thread Michael L. Williams
> Larry Letterman > Cisco Systems > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - Original Message - > From: "Kris Keen" > To: > Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 10:42 PM > Subject: Re: why SFM? [7:42877] > > > > Can we determine if we have SFM cards? > > > > We have

Re: why SFM? [7:42877]

2002-05-01 Thread Larry Letterman
not necessarily, a lot of the processing for port to port is done on the line cards.. Larry Letterman Cisco Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Kris Keen" To: Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 10:42 PM Subject: Re: why SFM? [7:42877] > Can we determine i

Re: why SFM? [7:42877]

2002-04-30 Thread Kris Keen
Can we determine if we have SFM cards? We have 2 x 6509's with Sup1A and MSFC2/PFC. We have dual 16GBIC line cards (32 in total) and we are using ALL of them. If we have the 32gbps backplane, and our 32 sockets maxed out (this isnt including the 4 x 48port ethernet line cards we have) then we wou

Re: why SFM? [7:42877]

2002-04-30 Thread Michael L. Williams
The SMF is basically a 256Gbps switching fabric. The 6000 family has a 32Gbps bus communications system built into it. There are 3 types of cards for the 6000 series. Non-fabric enabled, fabric-enabled, and fabric-only. The non-fabric enabled can only use the 32Gbps bus (to talk to the Sup/MSFC

why SFM? [7:42877]

2002-04-30 Thread TP
I'm reading the 6509 product overview and I could configure it with the Switch Fabric Module (WS-C5600-SFM or WS-X6500-SFM2). Two questions: - Which is the benefit of th SFM? -Why I MUST install it in slot 5 or 6? Thanks in advance, Teresa Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/rea