[AusNOG] Juniper vs Cisco vs Brocade - what's best for BGP routing?

[Skeeve Stevens]

Andrew,

There is a bunch of criteria you need to define before figuring out what
hardware you want.

Things like;

1. How critical is the connectivity
2. Throughput
3. Risk Aversion
4. Number of Upstreams and downstreams (if any)
5. Other feature requirements if equipment has dual purpose (MPLS, etc etc)
6. Budgets
7. Skills available for in-house support
8. Industry Focus

and quite a few others.

Without these, people are going to throw mostly biased opinions your way on
their experiences and what has worked for them.  You will get the Vyatta,
Cisco, Juniper, Brocade people... and even Microtik lovers (poke!).

Most experience is valid, but very subjective and most likely doesn't aline
up with anything related to what you want to do.

Figure out your requirements... and rate them in order of importance.

For example... Cost, Speed, Reliability - pick 2.


...Skeeve

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On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Andrew White <admin at uberskilled.com> wrote:

> Hey guys,
>
> I've recently set up my own AS and I'm looking at broadcasting my own BGP.
> I'm wanting to find some decent hardware at a reasonable price to do so.
>
> The same router will also run my servers (about 50 VMs/3 physical boxes)
> and have to deal with multiple upstream providers (two currently, but more
> to come at my DC).
>
> I also want something that can hold a big BGP routing table.
>
> When I was first getting into networking, Cisco was "the big thing". Now I
> look at the market and Junipers seem really common for the cheaper end of
> the market. I've seen Brocades too - I think they may be out of my price
> range, but I'm not sure if they're worth the money or if there's a huge
> benefit.
>
> I've been tossing up over a few Huawei models which are really, really
> cheap!
>
> I don't know a ton about the hardware side of things and I'm sure there
> are others on the list with a similar level of knowledge to me. I'm happy
> for any vendor contacts, and I'm sure replies on list would be appreciated
> for other people to learn about this too!
>
> Thanks guys!
>
> Andrew
>
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