[AusNOG] Cisco 6500 with Sup 720 3BXL - Good routing platform ??

Dobbins, Roland rdobbins at arbor.net
Sun Sep 19 15:20:02 EST 2010


On Sep 19, 2010, at 11:44 AM, Alex Pinto wrote:

> Thanks for your comments; I was unaware of the netflow “flaws” in this product I can see from a security point of view this would make visibility on the network on what’s going on very hard to see…

Not just security, but traffic engineering, troubleshooting, and billing, as well.

> So your recommendation is to choose a more feature rich platform and offset some of the performance options found on the 6500/7600 platform.


ASR9Ks, GSRs, and CRS-1s have quite high performance capabilities, keep in mind.

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