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----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Josh Reynolds" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2016 10:28:51 AM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] CGNAT + MPLS router /offtopic There's been some pretty compelling arguments made for awhile now against "needing" huge bgp tables, especially when there's only around 300 destinations used on a daily basis. On Dec 31, 2016 8:00 AM, "Paul Stewart" < [email protected] > wrote: Sure . that’s absolutely true… The original poster didn’t really give us much to work from … with or without support contracts, with or without legal licensing on the router … New, grey market etc… lots of choices. I’m not suggesting any of them are wrong - more that different folks have different business needs MX80 in particular is not an overly powerful router especially if you start to load down the features listed - example being full BGP tables that can become a challenge due to memory/CPU <blockquote> On Dec 31, 2016, at 7:52 AM, Gino Villarini < [email protected] > wrote: Juniper mx80 , can be found on eBay for about $10-15k Gino A. Villarini @gvillarini Gino Villarini President Metro Office Park #18 Suite 304 Guaynabo, Puerto Rico 00968 <aeronet-logo_310cfc3e-6691-4f69-bd49-b37b834b9238.png> > On Dec 31, 2016, at 7:34 AM, Paul Stewart < [email protected] > wrote: > > Sure - there are lots of options ….. > > Juniper MX line is personal favourite and one that we use for all of those > functions (except CGNAT as we don’t do it currently, but the box can do it > for sure). > > “reasonably priced core router” means a lot of different things though :) For > some folks this means a budget of $10k and for others it means $1mil > > Also, the licensing of features on certain vendors is something to be aware > of … for example, I just ordered another router for LNS purposes - after > discounts etc the router itself “only” cost about $50k but then I need line > cards and several different licenses. Linecards add $250k and licenses > another $60k or so … now that “router” is coming in at about $360k and that’s > with pretty significant discounts > > > >> On Dec 31, 2016, at 12:12 AM, Dev < [email protected] > wrote: >> >> I’m looking for reasonably priced core router that will do Carrier Grade >> NAT, MPLS, OSPF and BGP. I know Mikrotik will handle dancing unicorns, fairy >> dust and perpetual motion all for $100, but is there anything like a >> Juniper, Cisco, etc. that’s a more traditional thing people trust for core >> routing that has these features? > </blockquote>
