[AusNOG] 20G+ Routing on the cheap

[Skeeve Stevens]

I've heard good things and bad things about the CER.. mainly that it uses
commodity RAM and is rather slow.  But it is reasonable bang for buck.


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On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 4:25 PM, McDonald Richards <
McDonald.Richards at vocus.com.au> wrote:

>  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>
> Date: Saturday, 13 July 2013 3:58 PM
> To: "ausnog at lists.ausnog.net" <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>
> Subject: [AusNOG] 20G+ Routing on the cheap
>
>   Hi All,****
>
> ** **
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> 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.****
>
> ** **
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> The challenge I have is finding a way to do hardware-switched, high
> availability, full-table BGP routing in a cost effective manner.****
>
> ** **
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> 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.****
>
> ** **
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> 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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