Re: OT:OSM Cards

Hi Jack,

This is more like a SE discussion, sounds like someone's selling something !
:)

Anyway, this is a long tale but generally speaking in this market you hear
of two technologies:

1- FlexWAN
2- OSM

You see FlexWAN and (Enhanced FlexWAN) in 6500/7600 to support the
interfaces that you had in your older routers like 7200. This usually is
presented to customers as an "investment protection" plan. Nice enough with
a wide range of interfaces and recently decorated with some very high BW
support. To the best of my marketing knowledge it's no longer limited to
OC-3 and does support higher BW interfaces/connections.

But they also sell OSM (and eOSM), featuring a broad range of
interfaces/speeds (GE to OC-48 easily). It fully supports PXF (Parallel
Express Forwarding) using usually 2 PXF processors on the board of your line
cards. They're supposed to support 5-6 million packets per second. You will
also get on the top a monster like 8000 deep QoS queues, that I doubt you
EVER use them in a healthy well designed network.

Should you need more technical detail, just drop me a line or get a hold of
your local SE. They always enjoy this type of discussion!

HTH
Kambiz Agahian

CCIE Instructor/Consultant
CCIE# 25341, CCSI# 33326, MCSE, MCSA

On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Ryan West <rwest_at_zyedge.com> wrote:

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> > -----Original Message-----
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> > Subject: OT:OSM Cards
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> > Hi guys,
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> > please help me understand what is the use of OSM line cards ...and how it
> > differs from normal Line cards in 7600/6500.
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