<html><head></head><body dir="ltr" lang="en-GB" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: initial;"> <div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Isn't that what Friday afternoons are for? ;)</div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; font-size: initial; line-height: initial; text-align: initial;"><br></span></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; font-size: initial; line-height: initial; text-align: initial;">At face value, the 7280r is both next gen and a grade above hardware against Brocade and what you see in most of the 1RU merchant silicon switches right now, so it would destroy them on a pure capability basis. Arista software is pretty nifty and reliable from my observation as well.</span></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; font-size: initial; line-height: initial; text-align: initial;"><br></span></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; font-size: initial; line-height: initial; text-align: initial;">The above being said, I'd be surprised if it wasn't somewhat more expensive on a capex basis (ignoring the space saving element of being 1 RU). You only need 10 ports right now, and all the other fancy stuff it can do may be shelfware for your needs. </span></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; font-size: initial; line-height: initial; text-align: initial;"><br></span></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; font-size: initial; line-height: initial; text-align: initial;">Cheers,</span></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; font-size: initial; line-height: initial; text-align: initial;"><br></span></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; font-size: initial; line-height: initial; text-align: initial;">Rhod</span></div> <table width="100%" style="background-color:white;border-spacing:0px;"> <tbody><tr><td colspan="2" style="font-size: initial; text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 3pt 0in 0in; font-family: Tahoma, 'BB Alpha Sans', 'Slate Pro'; font-size: 10pt;"> <div><b>From: </b>Matthew Barnett</div><div><b>Sent: </b>Friday, 5 August 2016 11:53 AM</div><div><b>To: </b>Rhod Brown; ausnog@ausnog.net</div><div><b>Subject: </b>Re: [AusNOG] Cost effective 10G full feed BGP router for IPv4 & IPv6</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(186, 188, 209); border-top-width: 1pt; font-size: initial; text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div><br><div id="_originalContent" style="">
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<p>Nobody is biting my arm yet... Vendors must be all on Holiday or having Friday afternoon beers already.</p>
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<p>I wonder how this solution would compare against a Brocade CER plus a 10G switch</p>
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Hey Matt,</div>
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These things are pretty new, and reference customers are valuable, so you are best speaking with them direct and negotiating :) If you don't have someone biting your arm off by CoB let me know and I can point someone in your direction.</div>
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<div><b>From: </b>Matthew Barnett</div>
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<p>Rhod, </p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt">Any indication how much the 7280r might be, it looks very interesting.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt">Any Arista reps on list who can share </span>information<span style="font-size:12pt"> and pricing?</span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> 05 August 2016 09:54<br>
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Hi Matt,</div>
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I haven't seen pricing on this yet, so I'm not sure if it meets your cost effective criteria, but your use case is one of the main ones for Arista's new box:</div>
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<font face="Calibri, Slate Pro, sans-serif, sans-serif">http://www.arista.com/en/products/7280r-series</font></div>
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<font face="Calibri, Slate Pro, sans-serif, sans-serif">In a similarly murky price category would be the new Nexus 9300-EX platforms from Cisco. Both are technically capable with seriously impressive hardware specs, but are very new with quite a few licenses
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<font face="Calibri, Slate Pro, sans-serif, sans-serif">You'll start to see a lot more options in this space over the next 6 months or so as new chips from Mellanox, Broadcom etc come onstream in volume and more vendors get then integrated.</font></div>
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<font face="Calibri, Slate Pro, sans-serif, sans-serif">If you have a bit more space, a router or server+an L3 switch running Cumulus as James suggested would work just fine. A bit more self assembly required, but a lot more options on price. Just depends
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<div><b>From: </b>Matthew Barnett</div>
<div><b>Sent: </b>Friday, August 5, 2016 9:18 AM</div>
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<span style="font-size:11pt">I am after suggestions for a 10G router with at least 10 x 10G ports within a 1RU form factor, any suggestions?</span><br>
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Full routing table is a must.</p>
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Thanks Matt</p>
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