[AusNOG] 20G+ Routing on the cheap

[Greg M]

Hi All,
 
Just following up on this one last time as there were a number of people
interested.
 
We ended up with two preferred solutions:
 
Refurbished Cisco 4948E (with SmartNET) + 2 x Vyatta (Community Edition)
routers on Supermicro Xeon E3 blades

vs

New Brocade CER2024C-4X-RT (with Brocade on-site support).
 
When we did the maths on the CER2024 vs the Cisco solution, the Brocade came
out cheaper from an upfront cost (I can't disclose the Brocade pricing - but
the refurb Cisco 4948E + 2 x Xeon E3 boxes, plus SFP's, plus 10G NIC's was
more!) and in terms of performance and ongoing management it will be the
better solution by a big margin.
 
I am heading over to San Jose in October to set it all up (unfortunately
after AusNOG!), so I will try and do a lightning talk at next years' AusNOG
to go through the setup in more detail and share how it ended up working out
:-)
 
Cheers,

Greg
 
From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Greg M
Sent: Saturday, 13 July 2013 1:58 PM
To: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: [AusNOG] 20G+ Routing on the cheap
 
Hi All,
 
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.
 
The challenge I have is finding a way to do hardware-switched, high
availability, full-table BGP routing in a cost effective manner.
 
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.
 
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. 
 
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.
 
Thanks!
 
Greg
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