Mailing List Archive: Difference between modules with and without -A (ironcore)

Difference between modules with and without -A (ironcore)

May 16, 2005, 9:41 AM

Post #1 of 4 (987 views)

Dear colleagues,

I've taken a look at some ironcore-modules for a bigiron and found out that
there seem to be the same types of modules with and without an -A in the
part-number. What's the difference between them? Someone told me that the
modules with -A have a faster bus speed but I don't know what's the real
impact of the bus speed. Will the bigiron switch faster or something like
that or is layer3-forwarding being accelerated?

Thanks for your feedback in advance,
Gunther

Difference between modules with and without -A (ironcore) [ In reply to ]

glenn at intermedia

May 16, 2005, 4:32 PM

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I'm also interested in this.

A supplier told me a while back that the -A cards have faster
processors and the management cards might take more RAM than the
non -A cards, but I would love to know if there will be a significant
performance boost if -A cards are used.

Cheers!

Monday, May 16, 2005, 9:41:33 PM, you wrote/Sie schrieben:

ggn> Dear colleagues,

ggn> I've taken a look at some ironcore-modules for a bigiron and found out that
ggn> there seem to be the same types of modules with and without an -A in the
ggn> part-number. What's the difference between them? Someone told me that the
ggn> modules with -A have a faster bus speed but I don't know what's the real
ggn> impact of the bus speed. Will the bigiron switch faster or something like
ggn> that or is layer3-forwarding being accelerated?

ggn> Thanks for your feedback in advance,
ggn> Gunther

ggn> _______________________________________________
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ggn> foundry-nsp at puck.nether.net
ggn> http://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/foundry-nsp

Best Regards,

Glenn Tan
Senior Network Manager
Network Operations/Engineering
***********************************
Intermedia Network Services Pte Ltd
Tel: +65 98207885
Fax: +65 65470933
http://www.intermedia.com.sg
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Difference between modules with and without -A (ironcore) [ In reply to ]

jf at probe-networks

May 16, 2005, 5:43 PM

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Hi,

unfortunatly this is not true, its a simple sales "lie".
The -A cards have newer chipsets but do not have/give any new features
or speed gains. They are a little bit more expensive (on the grey
market) due to them beeing newer, meaning they wont fail as fast as
older chips (if they ever fail...).

Regards,
Jonas

On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 22:32, Glenn Tan wrote:
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>
> I'm also interested in this.
>
> A supplier told me a while back that the -A cards have faster
> processors and the management cards might take more RAM than the
> non -A cards, but I would love to know if there will be a significant
> performance boost if -A cards are used.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Monday, May 16, 2005, 9:41:33 PM, you wrote/Sie schrieben:
>
> ggn> Dear colleagues,
>
> ggn> I've taken a look at some ironcore-modules for a bigiron and found out that
> ggn> there seem to be the same types of modules with and without an -A in the
> ggn> part-number. What's the difference between them? Someone told me that the
> ggn> modules with -A have a faster bus speed but I don't know what's the real
> ggn> impact of the bus speed. Will the bigiron switch faster or something like
> ggn> that or is layer3-forwarding being accelerated?
>
> ggn> Thanks for your feedback in advance,
> ggn> Gunther
>
> ggn> _______________________________________________
> ggn> foundry-nsp mailing list
> ggn> foundry-nsp at puck.nether.net
> ggn> http://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/foundry-nsp
>
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Glenn Tan
> Senior Network Manager
> Network Operations/Engineering
> ***********************************
> Intermedia Network Services Pte Ltd
> Tel: +65 98207885
> Fax: +65 65470933
> http://www.intermedia.com.sg
> ***********************************
>
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Difference between modules with and without -A (ironcore) [ In reply to ]

pgay at foundrynet

May 17, 2005, 2:39 AM

Post #4 of 4 (976 views)

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Hello

You can have through SNMP the serial number of the blade with -A models,
what was not possible before....it's the only added feature you have

Regards

Pascal -----Message d'origine-----
De?: foundry-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
[mailto:foundry-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] De la part de Jonas Frey
Envoy??: lundi 16 mai 2005 23:44
??: Glenn Tan
Cc?: foundry-nsp at puck.nether.net
Objet?: Re: [f-nsp] Difference between modules with and without -A
(ironcore)

Hi,

unfortunatly this is not true, its a simple sales "lie".
The -A cards have newer chipsets but do not have/give any new features
or speed gains. They are a little bit more expensive (on the grey
market) due to them beeing newer, meaning they wont fail as fast as
older chips (if they ever fail...).

Regards,
Jonas

On Mon, 2005-05-16 at 22:32, Glenn Tan wrote:
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> Hash: MD5
>
> I'm also interested in this.
>
> A supplier told me a while back that the -A cards have faster
> processors and the management cards might take more RAM than the
> non -A cards, but I would love to know if there will be a significant
> performance boost if -A cards are used.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Monday, May 16, 2005, 9:41:33 PM, you wrote/Sie schrieben:
>
> ggn> Dear colleagues,
>
> ggn> I've taken a look at some ironcore-modules for a bigiron and found
out that
> ggn> there seem to be the same types of modules with and without an -A in
the
> ggn> part-number. What's the difference between them? Someone told me that
the
> ggn> modules with -A have a faster bus speed but I don't know what's the
real
> ggn> impact of the bus speed. Will the bigiron switch faster or something
like
> ggn> that or is layer3-forwarding being accelerated?
>
> ggn> Thanks for your feedback in advance,
> ggn> Gunther
>
> ggn> _______________________________________________
> ggn> foundry-nsp mailing list
> ggn> foundry-nsp at puck.nether.net
> ggn> http://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/foundry-nsp
>
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Glenn Tan
> Senior Network Manager
> Network Operations/Engineering
> ***********************************
> Intermedia Network Services Pte Ltd
> Tel: +65 98207885
> Fax: +65 65470933
> http://www.intermedia.com.sg
> ***********************************
>
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