[AusNOG] 20G+ Routing on the cheap

[Andrew Yager]

Hi,

You could also consider a Juniper MX5-T. Technically you aren't supposed to use the 10G ports on these but they don't enforce this unless you are running the 12.3 code base or later. I think the MX10 licenses two of the 10G ports if you want to "do the right thing" (tm).

Thanks,
Andrew

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> On 13 Jul 2013, at 3:58 pm, Greg M <gregm at servu.net.au> wrote:
> 
> 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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