<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">TPG I believe use CER in a lot of their network, at least rDNS indicates and a contact has brought up what a contracted MPLS network would be running over, so you'd probably be in good stead if TPG were happy with the el-cheapo solution it provides.</span><br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 5:17 PM, Andrew Yager <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrew@rwts.com.au" target="_blank">andrew@rwts.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>You could also consider a Juniper MX5-T. Technically you aren't supposed to use the 10G ports on these but they don't enforce this unless you are running the 12.3 code base or later. I think the MX10 licenses two of the 10G ports if you want to "do the right thing" (tm).</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Andrew<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><div class="h5"><div><br>On 13 Jul 2013, at 3:58 pm, Greg M <<a href="mailto:gregm@servu.net.au" target="_blank">gregm@servu.net.au</a>> wrote:<br>
<br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Hi All,<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I currently have a project I am working on to peer at Equinix in Palo Alto, as well as obtaining 10G transit at the same location.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">The challenge I have is finding a way to do hardware-switched, high availability, full-table BGP routing in a cost effective manner.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">
<u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">We were originally looking at a Cisco 4948E which can handle our port requirements (20-30 1000-base T, plus 4 x 10G ports), however it can only handle 30k unicast routes, and probably doesn’t have the RAM to support one or more full BGP tablesets anyway.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I am now looking at still using the 4948E, but using a Linux box downstream from it with 2 x 10G ports, that will run quagga to handle the routing – but obviously there will be a performance hit for this. <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Wondering if any smaller sized ISP’s have come across a scenario like this and have any ideas – or if anyone has any recommended switchrouters that can handle multiple 10G ports, plus full BGP – under $10-15k.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks!<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Greg<u></u><u></u></p></div></div></blockquote></div></div><blockquote type="cite">
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