From: Jonathan Hays (nomad@gfoyle.org)
Date: Thu Mar 11 2004 - 11:44:51 GMT-3
Ken,
Many thanks for the great post - it had lots of detail and gave the
source of the information - something we would all do well to emulate.
Thanks again,
Jonathan
>-----Original Message-----
>From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On 
>Behalf Of Kenneth Wygand
>Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 7:46 AM
>To: Masoud, Alaa; ccielab@groupstudy.com
>Subject: RE: What is the difference??!!
>
>
>The WS-X6348-RJ45V is a fabric enabled blade supporting 
>256gbps in the backplane, while the WS-X6148-RJ45V is not 
>fabric enable and runs at 32gbps in the backplane.  
>Furthermore, there is a single ASIC on the WS-X6148-RJ45V that 
>allows 1GBPS throughput total for each "chunk" of ports 
>assigned to that ASIC.  There are 6 ASICs (1-8, 9-16, 17-24, 
>25-32, 33-40 and 41-48), so each of these ranges are 
>oversubscribed with the maximum transfer speed of all 8 
>associated ports being 1gpbs.  Also, if you run an 
>etherchannel on this blade, the aggregate bandwidth of the 
>etherchannel is limited to 1gbps.  This is listed under the 
>release notes for the blade.  The WS-X6348-RJ45V, aside from 
>being much more expensive, is not subject to ANY of these 
>limitations and each port can operate at full wire speed on 
>every port simultaneously.  However, you also need to put 
>another "fabric-enabling module" into the chassis to realize 
>the benefits of this blade which is also very expensive from what !
> I believe.  If you don't include the "fabric-enabling 
>module", the WS-X6348-RJ45V will not utlize the fabric 
>backplane and will operate with the same performance of the 
>WS-6148-RJ45V.
> 
>Please check with Cisco to verify any of this, but from MANY 
>MANY phone calls and conversations with them, this is the 
>information I was able to attain.
> 
>Hope this helps,
>Ken
>
>	-----Original Message----- 
>	From: nobody@groupstudy.com on behalf of Masoud, Alaa 
>	Sent: Thu 3/11/2004 5:10 AM 
>	To: ccielab@groupstudy.com 
>	Cc: 
>	Subject: What is the difference??!!
>	
>	
>
>	Hi all,
>	
>	I'm building configuration for 6509 BB. I need to 
>insert a 10/100 inline power module. I found these exact same 
>two with different prices. Would anyone know what the 
>difference between them is??!!
>	
>	WS-X6348-RJ45V
>	Catalyst 6500 48-port 10/100, Inline Power, RJ-45
>	WS-X6148-RJ45V
>	Catalyst 6500 48-port 10/100 Inline Power, RJ-45
>	
>	Alaa.
>	
>	
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