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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT face=Calibri>Dear AusNog<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT face=Calibri>I’m looking at setting up a new pop site with 2 x Cisco 6509 each unit will have 2 x <SPAN style="COLOR: black">WS-SUP720-3BXL, with upgraded flash and 1GB of memory on each supervisor. We will have 10 upstream providers and do a fair bit of BGP. The combination of hardware above will do a total of 40bgits per slot, or a total of 720gbits across each complete unit. From a packet point of view each 6509 will do 400 million packets per second for IPv4 and 200 million packets per second for IPv6 all hardware processed.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><FONT size=3><FONT face=Calibri>Compared to the typical Cisco 7200 platform with a NPE G2 which only does 2 million packets per second the 6509 platform offers some serious performance difference…. So what’s the catch ?? other than physical size ? and the fact the 6500 is a few years old ?<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT face=Calibri>The investment will be a good $30k per unit (before shopping around for a good price)<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT face=Calibri>Is anyone else running this setup, how do you find it, and is it worth investing in a 6500 technology or something else ?<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT face=Calibri>The Juniper MX80 with 65 million packets per second, or the MX240 with 360 million packets per second also seem like good options, but at 150k per device it’s a much larger investment which is hard to justify when the 6500 platform seems so attractive.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT face=Calibri>Thanks for your help and advice in advance</FONT></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT size=3><FONT face=Calibri>Alex<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P> </body>
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