Christopher Wolff wrote:
Several weeks ago there was a lively debate on Nanog regarding cisco performance, if I recall correctly, one party indicated that they upgraded from a 7206 NPE400 to a GSR and only saw a 30% improvement in CPU utilization. That's a lot of bling bling for 30%...
Especially as you can more than double the performance of a NPE400 to a NPE-G1 for far less. If you have CPU-intensive needs, there are many cases where a NPE-G1 is a better answer than a 6500, 7600 or GSR. OTOH if you're "just" moving packets, the "high-end" stuff is much more likely to be your answer. As a point of interest, AARNet have chosen Procket routers for AARNet3. Would be interesting to know what the decision factors were, price or performance -- is a T640 just too slow? ;-) David.