[AusNOG] 20G+ Routing on the cheap

[Joshua D'Alton]

TPG I believe use CER in a lot of their network, at least rDNS indicates
and a contact has brought up what a contracted MPLS network would be
running over, so you'd probably be in good stead if TPG were happy with the
el-cheapo solution it provides.


On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 5:17 PM, Andrew Yager <andrew at rwts.com.au> wrote:

> 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
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> 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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