[AusNOG] 20G+ Routing on the cheap

[McDonald Richards]

If it was me with that budget and that requirement, I'd go the Brocade CER-RT. The bang-for-buck is amazing and very Cisco-like CLI.

http://www.brocade.com/downloads/documents/data_sheets/product_data_sheets/NetIron_CER_2000_DS.pdf

Macca


From: Greg M <gregm at servu.net.au<mailto:gregm at servu.net.au>>
Date: Saturday, 13 July 2013 3:58 PM
To: "ausnog at lists.ausnog.net<mailto:ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>" <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net<mailto: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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