[AusNOG] Cisco 6500 with Sup 720 3BXL - Good routing platform ??

[Alex Pinto]

The key requirements of this equipment is a blend of upstream transit providers, all hand off’ s will be Ethernet either fiber or copper and the 6500 on paper gives me a stupidly large port count for almost any 10/100/1000 copper or fiber ports, with even the option for 10gbit plus large cost effective performance.
 
I’m not too concerned about security (firewall  deep inspection) within this device as I want it purely for speed / routing / BGP downstream, but netflow and having control of packets is equally as important so maybe the 6500 platform might not be the best.
 
On the security side I’m considering a pair of Juniper SRX 3600 if they prove to be stable.
 
Thanks
Alex

 
> From: rdobbins at arbor.net
> To: ausnog at ausnog.net
> Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2010 05:21:49 +0000
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Cisco 6500 with Sup 720 3BXL - Good routing platform ??
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> On Sep 19, 2010, at 11:51 AM, Matthew Moyle-Croft wrote:
> 
> > What do you actually need to do?
> 
> We should keep in mind that there are baseline requirements for every edge device, which includes things like good flow telemetry, good antispoofing, good packet-filtering capabilities, good control- and management-plane self-protection, et. al.
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