On 8 Oct 2008, at 03:27, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
That's funny, the "workhorse" of all of
the datacenters I've seen
lately
are Cisco 6509's and 4948-10GE's, with a few older 3750 and 2950s
laying around for "legacy" stuff. I think you're calling
a "datacenter" what I'd call a "low end wiring closet". :)
Hmm, I guess my environment has helped influence my hardware
collecting
habits...
Yeah, I'll second that.
All of the secondary school networks I've been installing recently
have been based around dual 6509's with 720 Supervisor Fabrics, 8 x 10-
Gig etherchannels between them and dual 10-Gig links to stacked
3750's. Technically switches, of course, but the lines betwixt
routers and switches are seriously blurred at the high end (esp. with
the Distributed Forwarding Cards).
To bring the thread on-topicwards....
I've only been working with Cisco "big iron" for the last 3 years or
so, but I've never been impressed with the build quality on the
6500's. Sure, the power supplies are hewn from solid basalt (or at
least weigh like they do) but the little arms that hold the port cards
in are unbelievably puny and naff. Were they always like this or have
Cisco succumbed to the declining-quality bug like so much of the
industry since the early 90's?
-Austin.