From: Brant I. Stevens (branto@branto.com)
Date: Thu Sep 07 2006 - 01:13:07 ART
On 9/6/06 8:15 PM, "Rob Pethick (ropethic)" <ropethic@cisco.com> wrote:
> Jerry
>
> The 4500 and 6500 are indeed Catalyst switches. The architectures differ
> in terms of performance depending on the supervisor being used. Cat6500
> sup32 provides 15Mpps, Sup720 up to 400Mpps. The 4500 provides greater
> throughput than the sup32, however sup32is based on bus architecture
> line whereas the 4500 have six 2G (FD) serial connections to supervisor
> with various over subscription depending on line card
> The 7600 utilizes supervisor 32 or 720 but can increase performance with
> the addition of a SIP card (200,400,or 600)
> The 7200 is a relatively low end router designed for medium size branch
> offices. It provides up to 2Mpps throughput(npe-g1 or g2 processing
> engine) however all packets are processed in software (CPU) as opposed
> hardware ASIC on 7300 and 7600.
> Keep in mind the througput numbers are for full duplex (marketing
> fluff), Sup720 utilizes a 360 bus archictecure, sup32 16, 4500 is
> caluclated based on number of slots
The Sup 720 does include a bus for backwards compatibility with the Classic
Line cards, but for traffic to reach 360Gb/s, it is not across a bus; it is
across a switch fabric.
You can download more details on the Catalyst 6500 switch architecture at
the Networkers 2006 site.
http://www.networkersonline.net/servlet/mware.servlets.StudentServlet?mwacti
on=generic&file=pdf_download&subsysid=12073
-Brant.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Rob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Jerry Chan
> Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 11:36 PM
> To: Cisco certification
> Subject: 45xx, 65xx, 72xx and 76xx
>
> As i know that the 45xx and 65xx is catalyst, and 72xx and 76xx is
> Router,
>
> However, does anyone know the main differenet on these equipment?
> i have been asked as before "why use 65xx for core not 76xx?"
>
> Regards and Thanks
> Jerry Chan
>
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