[AusNOG] powerful routers in core/edge routing/switching

[Chris Chaundy]

Alcatel 7950's would cover this pretty easily but they are not cheap.  Only started using 7750's 3-4 years ago but they are pretty good, especially where you need line rate.  For the CLI, think a bit like Juniper with a bit of Cisco influence.  VG reliability and redundancy.  The service-based architecture takes a little getting used to but it really has benefits.

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On 12/02/2013, at 14:43, "Joshua D'Alton" <joshua at railgun.com.au> wrote:

> I've gone through a similar question a few months back, I was after a switch with high 10Gbit port count that could handle the full routing table, unfortunately there isn't really one, yet. Or at least they aren't under the switching part of  the supplier websites. Hopefully in a couple years we see the various platforms changing from having massive features and overkill edge routing to plain simple eBGP with high port counts like you want.
> 
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Craig Askings <craig at askings.com.au> wrote:
>> On 12/02/2013 1:14 PM, Chris Chaundy wrote:
>>> No one has suggested Alcatel 7750 SR, or 7950 XRS if you are really serious.
>> I personally haven't mentioned them as I've never actually used one. I suspect that will be the case for a lot of us on this list.
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