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

[James Braunegg]

Dear All

Since 2010 we have been the Brocade MLXe X platform which supports 10million 1pv4 BGP routes in the RIB and 1million ipv4 in the FIB along with 2000 BGP sessions etc in our eyes a real work horse.

The reason we choose the Brocade platform was routing performance being able to handle Billion's of packets per second throughput and having large 10gbit port line rate density and it handles BGP conversance extremely quickly, not to mention all the nice things such as MPLS !

Scalability was also important so having the options to run 40gbit and 100gbit ports is also great !

A key benefit I believe is the support Brocade delivers, the ability to treat you like a real customer not just a number... Recently I was over in the USA at the Brocade headquarters in Silicon Valley and the service they provided me was amazing, getting the opportunity to meet and talk with engineers who actually build the MLXe platform was great!

PS you don't want to look at the MLX / XMR platform as this this is the older platform. The new generation equipment is the MLXe-M or MLXe-X

The other very good option is the CER 2000 RT which is a smaller 1RU hardware based router which is extremely powerful and cost effective if you can't justify a massive investment in the MLXe based platform.

Kindest Regards

James Braunegg
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From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Joshua D'Alton
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 2:43 PM
To: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] powerful routers in core/edge routing/switching

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<mailto: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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