[AusNOG] Scaling beyond 1Gbps transit

[Lindsay Hill]

There are some ASR1K bundles you can get that include reasonably priced 10Gb ports.

If you don't get those ports via the bundle price, then yes, they blow the cost out of the water. I've seen some scenarios where it's almost worth buying a 1001 just to get bundled 10G adapters, that you then use somewhere else.

On 24/09/2013, at 7:24 PM, Tom Lanyon <tom+ausnog at oneshoeco.com> wrote:

> On 24/09/2013, at 4:21 PM, Skeeve Stevens <skeeve+ausnog at eintellegonetworks.com> wrote:
>> 600Mbps is almost the limit for a 7201 (1Gig TP maximum theoretical).
>> 
>> Go an ASR1002 or Juniper MX5 - both make great cheap bgp border routers.
>> 
>> Yes... 10Gb interfaces is the way to go.... or just multiple 1Gb upstreams?  With that much traffic, you should be diverse anyhow.
> 
> 10Gbps interfaces are still relatively expensive[1] on the ASR1000 platform, when you consider the pricing of 7200 series[2] gear which it is replacing.  Is the situation better with the MX?
> 
> I don't have any experience with them, but would an ASR9001(-S) actually be a better choice for 10Gbps, considering the 4x built in 10Gbps SFP+ ports and cheaper-per-10Gbps modular port adapters?
> 
> -Tom
> 
> 
> [1] Somewhere around $12k for a single port SPA-1X10GE-L-V2?  and some crazy figure for the WAN PHY version (which I assume just has big buffers?)..
> 
> [2] Understanding, of course, that this product line is EOL.
> 
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