<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div><br></div>If you are looking for density of sub-10GbE ports and just BGP / OSPF then Cat6K is still a fair option if you want switching and routing. If you want 10GbE ports then Nexus should also be on your review list too.<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>David</div><div>…</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 12/02/2013, at 10:27 AM, Ankit Agrawal <<a href="mailto:ankitagrawals@gmail.com">ankitagrawals@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div>Hi Guys,</div><div><br></div><div>I am interesting in hearing what others think and/or have experienced about the following:</div><div><br></div><div>Cisco ASR</div><div>Juniper MX</div><div>Brocade MLX</div><div><br></div><div>I am after some powerful routers (with possible switching) that can hold multiple IPv4/IPv6 tables and forward say ~200 Gbps of throughput preferably all in hardware. This will be pure BGP/OSPF calculations for next hops, route convergence and forwarding. I know MLX ports can act as switching ports so that will mean I don't need a separate switching layer which is a bonus. </div><div><br></div><div>Guess, instead of having a L3 switch that can do routing, I want a router that can do switching.</div><div><br></div><div>Looking forward to hear from you noggers.</div><div><br></div><div>Best Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Ankit Agrawal.</div><br></div>
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