<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Yep.<div>You can still just find a use for a Cisco 7206 with NSE-225.</div><div><br></div><div>Although our AGS+ hasn't been in production for A LONG time.</div><div><br></div><div>MMC</div><div><br><div><div><div>On 05/03/2009, at 2:58 PM, Craig Askings wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>I suspect many an ISP that started with a single 7200 and a switch, still<br>has it humming it away in their network years (and many expansions) later.<br>It just slowly gets pushed further to the edge over time.<br><br>Craig.<br><br>On Wed, March 4, 2009 11:20 pm, Matthew Moyle-Croft wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Skeeve's recommendation is a good one:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">7206VXR-NPE-G1s are the swiss army knife - well debugged, well<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">understood, easy to obtain parts new and after market and will be<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">supported for a long time to come and easily handle full BGP tables.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Even though they're no longer something we use in our core they are<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">now excellent PE routers for terminating customer sessions or smaller<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">LNSes etc. We've got a frightening number still humming away and<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">unlikely to be replaced. Because of this Cisco are unlikely to EOL<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">them for a LONG time to come (think of the ROI of that platform for<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">them).<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">(We've got many dozens - I wouldn't want to try and count - it'd take<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">too long).<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">The news G2s are nice as they have an extra GE port and much faster<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">VPN BUT remember they need SFPs (SFP slots only for 2 of the ports).<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">MMC<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>AusNOG mailing list<br><a href="mailto:AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net">AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net</a><br><a href="http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog">http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>-- <br>Matthew Moyle-Croft Internode/Agile Peering and Core Networks<br>Level 5, 162 Grenfell Street, Adelaide, SA 5000 Australia<br>Email: <a href="mailto:mmc@internode.com.au">mmc@internode.com.au</a> Web: <a href="http://www.on.net/">http://www.on.net</a><br>Direct: +61-8-8228-2909<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> Mobile: +61-419-900-366<br>Reception: +61-8-8228-2999 Fax: +61-8-8235-6909<br></div></div></span></div></span> </div><br></div></div></body></html>