On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, Rossella Mariotti-Jones wrote:
Hello all, we're looking to buy a router on which to run BGP that can take full BGP routes, I know all Cisco routers (1800 up) with Advanced IP services IOS will do BGP and I've been told that if we max out the memory we'll be fine with any router. We're going to need some ports (up to 24) in this router. We're looking at a 7604 with sup720-3b and 1gb of memory, a 2821 or 2851 with an nme and 1gb of memory, or another possibility is the ASR platform, but I haven't looked into this well yet. Any recommendations? Thanks in advance.
7600 and 2800 series are very different beasts. Figure out what sort of throughput/backplane capacity you need and that should point you towards the apropriate platform. If you go 7600, don't buy less than the sup720-3bxl. The older sup720-3b, regardless of how much RAM you put on it, won't properly handle full routes.
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