Re: NPE-G2 vs. Sup720-3BXL

2009-05-18 Thread Adam Armstrong
David Storandt wrote: We're stuck in an engineering pickle, so some experience from this crew would be useful in tie-breaking... We operate a business-grade FTTx ISP with ~75 customers and 800Mbps of Internet traffic, currently using 6509/Sup2s for core routing and port aggregation. The MSFC2s a

Re: NPE-G2 vs. Sup720-3BXL

2009-05-18 Thread Steve Dalberg
2009/5/18 Adam Armstrong : > David Storandt wrote: >> >> We're stuck in an engineering pickle, so some experience from this >> crew would be useful in tie-breaking... >> >> We operate a business-grade FTTx ISP with ~75 customers and 800Mbps of >> Internet traffic, currently using 6509/Sup2s for cor

Re: NPE-G2 vs. Sup720-3BXL

2009-05-18 Thread Julio Arruda
Steve Dalberg wrote: 2009/5/18 Adam Armstrong : David Storandt wrote: We're stuck in an engineering pickle, so some experience from this crew would be useful in tie-breaking... We operate a business-grade FTTx ISP with ~75 customers and 800Mbps of Internet traffic, currently using 6509/Sup2s f

RE: NPE-G2 vs. Sup720-3BXL

2009-05-18 Thread Holmes,David A
Some things to remember about the MSFC2s when designing a deterministic network: Without the switch fabric module, the 6509 only has a 32 Gbps contention-based BUS as a backplane. Also I believe only "classic" line cards work without the switch fabric module. "Classic" line cards share hardware po

Fore ATM PCI cards

2009-05-18 Thread Joe Greco
I've poked around trying to figure out how not to just dump these in the trash. isp-equipment seems to be dead, etc. They're obscure and NANOG's about the only group I would think of where ATM guys might still hang out. :-) Free to a good home: a small supply of Fore ATM OC3 fiber and copper ca