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Re: WS-X6148A-GE-TX performance question


From: Bill Blackford <bblackford () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:39:30 -0700

There was a good thread on Cisco-nsp regarding this exact subject recently.
My recollection is that both X6148 and X6148A have just 6 1GB ASICs.
Therefore the over subscription rate is 8:1. The biggest difference between
these LC's is that X6148A will support large MTU whereas X6148 will not.

-b


On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Scott Spencer <scott () dwc-computer com>wrote:

 Are the X6148A cards dedicated 1 gb/s uplink for each port ( shared 32
Gb/s
bus , as long as each port is it's own 1 gb/s still to the 32gb/s bus and
not shared with 7 other ports, so effectively just 125Mb/s per port then if
all used at full/even capacity) ?

I can't really find anything much on X6148A internal architecture online,
but it would seem that each port gets its own 1gb/s link to the
card/backplane, and that the bottleneck then is the 32gb/s backplane (which
is fine, as long as it's not 1 gb/s per each set of 8 ports!).


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