[AusNOG] 10GBps router suggestions

[Adam Mulcahy]

I would suggest you have a look at the merchant silicon cisco platforms NCs5xx and NCS5xxx they run XR and are better sized for many Australian ISP environments than the ASR9k.

,Adam


> On 18 Nov 2020, at 3:11 am, Nikolas Geyer <nik at neko.id.au> wrote:
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> What’s the forwarding table size requirements? If small or can use selective route download tricks, get a switch. 
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> Haven’t touched Cisco in a while but Arista and Juniper have cheap Tomahawk based switches that will do the job.
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> Otherwise the Juniper MX204 is probably the sweet spot router you want.
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> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On Nov 17, 2020, at 4:21 AM, Simon Dixon <simon at dicko.net.au> wrote:
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>> look at an MX204 before an MX80, as they only have 2gig of ram and a very very very very very slow RE CPU.  So not much good for multiple full tables and very slow convergence time.  Which is fine in some cases. 
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>> Simon.
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>> On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 at 16:48, DaZZa <dazzagibbs at gmail.com <mailto:dazzagibbs at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> How much do you want to spend?
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>> A Juniper MX 80 will easily do that, and carry up to 8 X 10 gig ports.
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>> An MX 40 only has 4 X 10 gig or I'd say use one of those.
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>> You could do it cheaper with an SRX1500 in packet mode, but the total throughout is lower than the 80gig the MX80 will push.
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>> On Tue, 17 Nov 2020, 6:20 pm Darren Moss, <Darren.Moss at cloud365.com.au <mailto:Darren.Moss at cloud365.com.au>> wrote:
>> Hi Dave,
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>> Preferably able to move 10GBps around but we can do 10GBps ports for now so long as we can spike for short periods.
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>> Typical traffic is well under, but we do move backups and replication data usually overnight in AU so we could run less and still be fine.
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>> Cheers
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>> Darren.
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>> From: Dave Browning [mailto:dave at dlbnetworks.com <mailto:dave at dlbnetworks.com>] 
>> Sent: Tuesday, 17 November 2020 6:15 PM
>> To: Darren Moss
>> Cc: AusNOG Mailing List
>> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] 10GBps router suggestions
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>> Do you just need 10Gbe holes, or be able to move 10Gbp/s around as well?
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>> On 17 Nov 2020, at 5:12 pm, Darren Moss <Darren.Moss at cloud365.com.au <mailto:Darren.Moss at cloud365.com.au>> wrote:
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>> Hi Noggers,
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>> I am looking to upgrade (replace) 3x  Cisco routers.
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>> My preference is Cisco, however open to considering others.
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>> Must have dual PSUs and support 10GBps interfaces.
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>> We have 3 public (fibre) and 2 private interfaces on each router.
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>> Happy to hear suggestions.
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>> Many thanks
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>> Darren.
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