What's frustrating is this is the ONLY platform with full IPFix support.
None of the current platforms can do SPB + IPFix or if they do, it is so sampled and timesliced it is almost meaningless.
Grrr.
I was planning on getting two 8800's this fiscal year due to the IPFix support in an SPB world. VSP 8000's will require port spans with a flow exporter, and probably won't give me the per-port metrics and security breakdown I love from the 8600 platform.
We don't need 10 Gig outside of our Data Center - so 10 Gig density is not a problem either.
I know time is marching on, but I'll have no choice but to look at the competition if there is no roadmap that brings this back into the mix (Outside the VSP9000, which we cannot afford).
TankII