From: serhat aslan (serhataslan22@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Jun 21 2007 - 12:30:45 ART
Especially I don't want to see 6500 at R&S.
6500 series more than a modular switch (as well as 76xx) it is an unique platform(!). And has got many different type of modules then the other competitors can't do (ACE, CSS, IPS, VPN, NAM, etc...). And all these modules are result of different demands. For instance, IPS->CCIE-Security, CSS-Storage(or I thought). By the way some them are stand on the cutting-edge.
R&S-lab is testing the protocols behaviors and features. Although design effected the nature of the routing/problem, R&S-lab has no worries on the design concepts(?) with integrating advanced security, L5 switching, etc.. .
My opinion is 6500 must address at the CCIE-Architecture
Pls. don't mix the architecture base Capabilities + Design concepts vs Protocol type problems. If The main problem is to interact the real life situations, more effective method is setting up the mixed heterogeneous network. If they could use F5,Checkpoint,Nortel,Alcatel,Juniper, 3-party equipments, it seems reasonable to me interact the real real-life problems.
As the last point, there are a lot of best practices published at networker series. AFAIK, at least for the effective Cat6500 test we have to use min. 2 of them and normally 4.
Serhat Aslan
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