On 6/16/16 12:51 AM, Saku Ytti wrote: > Hey, > > I've been bit poking around trying to find reasonable option for 1GE > L3 full BGP table aggregator. It seems vendors are mostly pushing > Satellite/Fusion for this application. > > I don't really like the added complexity and tight coupling > Satellite/Fusion forces me. I'd prefer standards based routing > redundancy to reduce impact of defects. > > ASR9001 and MX104 are not an options, due to control-plane scale. New > boxes in vendor pipeline are completely ignoring 1GE. > > I've casually talked with other people, and it seems I'm not really > alone here. My dream box would be 96xSFP + 2xQSFP28, with pretty much > full edge features (BGP, LDP, ISIS, +1M FIB, +5M RIB, per-interface > VLANs, ipfix or sflow, at least per-port QoS with shaper, martini > pseudowires). > > With tinfoil hat tightly fit on my head, I wonder why vendors are > ignoring 1GE? Are business cases entirely driven now by Amazon, > Google, Facebook and the likes? Are SP volumes so insignificant in > comparison it does not make sense to produce boxes for them? > Heck even 10GE is starting to become problematic, if your application > is anything else than DC, because you can't choose arbitrary optics.
There's not a lot of innovation going on in lower end 1G chipsets. The natural consequent of that is that you can build a high-end gig switch or router around a chipset supporting 10Gb/s ports or feeds and speeds your cogs are naturally going to be rather similar to the 10Gb/s offering.
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