Bandwidth Points?

Has anyone got a good explanation for bandwidth points? It seems that 1 megabit equals one bandwidth point.

We are contemplating purchasing some 7204VXR routers and would like to do 2 etherchannels with four Fast Ethernet ports in each group. However, by my reckoning this would be 1600 bandwidth points and I believe the 7204 will only support 600 bandwidth points on each of the two buses it has - thus we could only do 3 Fast Ethernet interfaces in each channel. Can anyone shed some light on bandwidth points?

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networker050184

You can use the Cisco Dynamic Configuration Tool to check your hardware config is acceptable.

Here is a PDF explaining the point for the 7200 with the different NPEs. It doesn't include the G-2 though. There might be a more up to date copy out there some where if you Google.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/routers/ps341/prod_presentation09186a008009184d.pdf

vinbuck

Wow...some great info in there. It looks like we will only be able to do 3 FastEthernet interfaces in each port channel since we are only going to use an NPE-400 but that still works.

Thanks for the help.

tiersten

What line cards are you looking at getting?

vinbuck

We are probably gonna pick up an IO-2FE card and three PA-2FE-TX cards for each chassis.