Re: Cat6500 vs. 7600 Router

From: Wes Stevens (wrsteve@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Nov 09 2006 - 21:02:43 ART

Alex,

I did not say there was not 6500 code that would run SIP200's or
SIP400's. The 12.2(18)SXE is pre diverged code. What I said is the code is
diverging. 12.2(33)SRA is 7600 only code. Going forward the 6500 diverged code
will not support the SIP modules - you will have to run the 7600 version of
the code. The 7600 code and the 6500 code will support different feature sets
and you will have to pick one or the other depending on what you want to do.
For instance if you want SIP's you will need 7600 code. If you want CSM's you
will go with 6500 code.

By the way you do not want to run SIP's on anything
but 12.2(33)SRA code. Even this code has a pretty long bug list. Have your SE
do a bug scrub and make sure no features you need have any show stoppers.
----- Original Message ----
From: Alex Rodriguez <bsivasub@gmail.com>
To: Wes
Stevens <wrsteve@yahoo.com>
Cc: Venkatesh Venkatesh <kvpalani@gmail.com>;
Rodrigo Paes <rpaes@pobox.com>; "Fosket, William"
<William.Fosket@compass.net>; Dusty <dustygoody@gmail.com>; Cisco
certification <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 9, 2006
3:20:08 PM
Subject: Re: Cat6500 vs. 7600 Router

Correction
 
6500 code does
support sip200/400/ 600
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/lan/cat6000/122sx/ol_4164.htm
#wp2565000
 

 
On 11/9/06, Wes Stevens <wrsteve@yahoo.com> wrote:
The code
for the 7600 and the 6500 has already diverged. We just put in 4 7600's with
SIP400's and the code we are running is 12.2(33)SRA. This is 7600 only code.
The 6500 code will not support SIP200's or SIP400's.

----- Original Message 

----
From: Venkatesh Venkatesh <kvpalani@gmail.com>
To: Rodrigo Paes
<rpaes@pobox.com>
Cc: "Fosket, William" <William.Fosket@compass.net>; Dusty <
dustygoody@gmail.com>; Cisco certification <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent:
Thursday, November 9, 2006 2:07:27 PM
Subject: Re: Cat6500 vs. 7600 Router

I
had a meeting with a SE from cisco last week and we were bragging him
about
6500 and 7600 and how come 7600 being expensive when they are the
same, his
answer was CISCO has a slightly different roadmap for 6500 and 
7600 in the
future both from an IOS and also from an HW perspective, though
he dint give
specifics.

Thanks,
Venkatesh # 16294

On 11/9/06, Rodrigo Paes
<rpaes@pobox.com > wrote:
>
> On Thu, 9 Nov 2006 14:47:08 -0500
> "Fosket,
William" <William.Fosket@compass.net> wrote:
>
> > My understanding is that
the only difference between them is the name. 
> > Supposedly, some networks
required routers so they relabeled the 6500
> > switches to meet that
(imagined) need.
> >
>
> I heard this a couple of years back from a cisco guy
on a Networker's 
> presentation about router architectures
>
> "well...
Enterprise customers like to buy switches, 4500s 6500s, you
> know, now
Service Providers like to buy routers, 7500 10ks GSRs... what
> we did was
take the 6500, flip it on its side and rename it 7600, now
> it's more Service
Provider Friendly"
>
>
> HTH
>
> []s
> rodrigo
>
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