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that want 4 X 10 GbE on each module (8 slot chassis). I expect this will be a perfect 40G throughput since I've never seen us do anything less than perfect (been working here since August).
Oh phuleeese.... Stop drinking your own Kool-Aid(tm). To honestly suggest that Foundry, or any other vendor for that matter, never does 'anything less than perfect' is nothing less than idiotic. If Foundry does things so 'perfect' why do they have a TAC? Why do they have bugs? Why do they even need to release new software ever again? Obviously what is out now will solve every possible issue - its 'perfect' right? The only possible answer according to your logic, is to support customers who are 'doing it wrong' and need to be educated.
Topic is performance. Not sugary beverages. Sorry for not making that clear. Let me reword. My bad: "perfect performance on 10GbE". I believe I also mentioned our 8G per slot throughput limitation not to mislead people to think we do 10GbE non-blocking. Same limitation as the Cat6500 once it gets up to speed.
Go find the nice black shirts that were passed out at Foundry's last Kool-Aid fest. You are in obvious need of one. This is NOT the place to post vendor FUD. All you are doing is making Foundry look bad, and making yourself look even worse.
Didn't you pass out those shirts? Everything I posted concerning performance of 10GbE I saw for myself. All other information was publicly available and concerns operators interested in 10GbE. Many of them are unaware of their options and I wanted to bring Foundry to light. Reading NANOG you would think that the only way to spot Nimda would be NBAR and the only MPLS is Juniper. The post I replied to is a person considering 10GbE in a 6500. I've seen the performance on this at a customer site with SmartBits. The channel became a Foundry reseller because of this specific issue. Now the same configuration comes up on NANOG and I wanted the person thinking about the 6500/10GbE solution to be aware of what I saw. Perhaps the performance is faster than 4G today (My info is a month old). If I were to leave Foundry today (to make them look better) and work for another company (McDonalds?), I would have sent the same post (would you like fries with that?). You can't forget what you see. I have tested our 10GbE personally. Gary