[AusNOG] 20G+ Routing on the cheap

[Greg M]

Thanks all for the feedback. We've asked our US supplier for a quote on a
Brocade CER 2024, however given the likely $10k price difference between it
and a 4948E, we will probably in the end go with a hardened Gentoo
server/blade with dual 10G ports running quagga.

 

We currently run this exact setup at a datacentre in Fremont and are pushing
8Gbps at peak without any packet drops on the 4948E and Linux server.

 

Seems to be a lot of people in the same basket. I'll follow up with some
results in late August once we have this kit installed at Equinix SV1.

 

Cheers,

 

Greg

 

 

From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Skeeve
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Sent: Saturday, 13 July 2013 8:37 PM
To: McDonald Richards
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Subject: Re: [AusNOG] 20G+ Routing on the cheap

 

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.





...Skeeve

 

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On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 4:25 PM, McDonald Richards
<McDonald.Richards at vocus.com.au <mailto: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>
http://www.brocade.com/downloads/documents/data_sheets/product_data_sheets/N
etIron_CER_2000_DS.pdf

 

Macca

 

 

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