Style questions aside (cough), I wonder what people think of this idea of the 7750 becoming a core network option for larger and larger networks. You can't hook 72 of them together like you can with the CRS-1 -- but is AlcaLu onto something by saying it's got a more compact, practical approach?
OK, I'll bite - what's the big deal about connecting n chassis together? How big is n: is n=2 for most deployments that actually use multi-chassis.
Multi-chassis is just an RFP tick-mark to protect the core router space. No significant deployments (note that I didn't say no deployments).
Craig, it would be interesting to see how many real deployments there are of multi-chassis - and by that I don't mean "count how many providers have deployed a 2-chassis core router". I mean, what fraction of core routing is really running on this multi-chassis router, vs. how much would core routing benefit from 100Gig sans multi-chassis. I.e., give us operational vs. marketing wisdom.
-desi
PS. I think ALU is just too conservative in not pre-announcing stuff and even going after the core. I think Juniper was too, and it just may be a stage in growth of a product, but yea, ALU has a pretty credible core router, and this blade would put them in the big leagues.
I guess Craig was so excited by the news of a real 100Gig ethernet blade that could perform services at line-rate that he could hardly contain himself :)
I'm amazed though that the only thing that struck you was typos.
I think ALU may have the benefit of leveraging a relatively low cost chassis wih already significant foorprint. Carriers are hesitant to buy expensive cards for big routers like CRS-1 that is perhaps shipping in 1000s. This is evident in number of 40G ports in big routers. How many of these routers will upgrade to 100G?
In case of ALU, their advantage is lower cost chassis with larger potential port shipments and a more affordable platform for offering 100G.Couple that with their ability to connect the routers to their transport gear, there may be a winning chance for them.
Wonder if a machine wrote this? Needs a human based spell checking