RE: What is the difference??!!

From: Jonathan Hays (nomad@gfoyle.org)
Date: Thu Mar 11 2004 - 11:44:51 GMT-3


Ken,

Many thanks for the great post - it had lots of detail and gave the
source of the information - something we would all do well to emulate.

Thanks again,

Jonathan

>-----Original Message-----
>From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On
>Behalf Of Kenneth Wygand
>Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 7:46 AM
>To: Masoud, Alaa; ccielab@groupstudy.com
>Subject: RE: What is the difference??!!
>
>
>The WS-X6348-RJ45V is a fabric enabled blade supporting
>256gbps in the backplane, while the WS-X6148-RJ45V is not
>fabric enable and runs at 32gbps in the backplane.
>Furthermore, there is a single ASIC on the WS-X6148-RJ45V that
>allows 1GBPS throughput total for each "chunk" of ports
>assigned to that ASIC. There are 6 ASICs (1-8, 9-16, 17-24,
>25-32, 33-40 and 41-48), so each of these ranges are
>oversubscribed with the maximum transfer speed of all 8
>associated ports being 1gpbs. Also, if you run an
>etherchannel on this blade, the aggregate bandwidth of the
>etherchannel is limited to 1gbps. This is listed under the
>release notes for the blade. The WS-X6348-RJ45V, aside from
>being much more expensive, is not subject to ANY of these
>limitations and each port can operate at full wire speed on
>every port simultaneously. However, you also need to put
>another "fabric-enabling module" into the chassis to realize
>the benefits of this blade which is also very expensive from what !
> I believe. If you don't include the "fabric-enabling
>module", the WS-X6348-RJ45V will not utlize the fabric
>backplane and will operate with the same performance of the
>WS-6148-RJ45V.
>
>Please check with Cisco to verify any of this, but from MANY
>MANY phone calls and conversations with them, this is the
>information I was able to attain.
>
>Hope this helps,
>Ken
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com on behalf of Masoud, Alaa
> Sent: Thu 3/11/2004 5:10 AM
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Cc:
> Subject: What is the difference??!!
>
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm building configuration for 6509 BB. I need to
>insert a 10/100 inline power module. I found these exact same
>two with different prices. Would anyone know what the
>difference between them is??!!
>
> WS-X6348-RJ45V
> Catalyst 6500 48-port 10/100, Inline Power, RJ-45
> WS-X6148-RJ45V
> Catalyst 6500 48-port 10/100 Inline Power, RJ-45
>
> Alaa.
>
>
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