[AusNOG] 10G CPE (1RU?) recommendations?

[jason andrade]

G'day Ausnoggers,

Apologies if you see this twice - i had tried to send it out on Friday but haven't seen it come through.

Can you provide input or a recommendation for a 10Gbps CPE ?

The current CPE is a Cisco ME3400 which is used to deliver 1Gbps access.  There might be a reason to standardise the 10G and 1G platform onto the same type of device in the future.

The base requirements are:

- Layer2/3
- Support OSPF and BGP for IP Routing
- SNMP support
- ACLs

The expectation for the 10G CPE is to support throughput of > 1G (but not necessarily full line rate at 10G).

A large number of 10G ports is not necessarily a requirement (or a bonus..) - anywhere from 2 or 4 ports would be more than sufficient.

Also the ability to deal with lots of sessions is more important than  high throughput (above 1Gbit..)

Happy to summarize the results - I've already searched through the previous (Ausnog) CPE thread and the usual places like whirlpool in case there was anything relevant there..

regards,

-jason