RE: The Gorgon's Knot. Was: Re: Verio Peering Question

[Vadim Antonov <avg () exigengroup com>]

The original 7000s (with SP if anyone remebers that beast) were slower
even that AGS/+ ...

7000s are probably the worst-designed piece of hardware from Cisco.  The
only benefit of replacing AGS/+ es at the time 7000 was introduced was
that some smarthead designed AGS/+ w/o enough address leads, so they
topped at 16Mb of RAM.

--vadim

PS   Longevity-speaking - it is not technology which really matters, it is
     architecture.  You can buy a box now which you can still be using 10
     years later, given the exponential traffic growth.  Won't cost you
     arm and leg, too.

On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Daniel Golding wrote:

> There is also a point that many folks may be missing. The 7200 and 7500
> routers, while ubiquitious, are not new models. These are 5 year-old
> devices, which have been progressively retrofitted with new CPUs, and are
> based on even older technology.
>
> There have been assertions made that telco equipment is expected to last for
> 20 years - this is true. However, we are at a much later stage in the
> maturity of voice phone switches. It will take a few more (albeit costly)
> cycles of equipment replacement for routers to last anywhere near that long.
> However, for computing equipment, the 7xxx class of routers has aged quite
> well. How many of us are running with 5 year-old PCs on our desks? Now,
> contrast this to how many of us have 7200s or 7500s in our networks...
>
> - Dan