[AusNOG] 20G+ Routing on the cheap

[Greg M]

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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