> 7500s? In 2004? Throw those things in the trash where they belong. It's > always amazing to me how many people will cling to obsolete things for > years just because it is what they know.
Don't agree with this. For E1/T1 access these boxes are fine. Yes they are long in the tooth but they are quite capable. I wouldn't spend a huge amount of time or money trying to make them do anything else though. > Even a Juniper M5 will do 16 OC3's with line rate filtering and > forwarding. There are probably a dozen design considerations based on > requirements you haven't described, but if you're doing primarily sonet, > 7600 isn't really the way to go. Depends on what "primarily sonet" means. Regards, Neil.
