Re: 10G-capable customer router recommendations?

2016-04-18 Thread Andrew Thrift
This has not been the case for at least a year now. Most Mikrotik routers now support FastPath/FastTrack. This is kind of like CEF in Cisco land. http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Fast_Path http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Wiki/Fasttrack On 16/04/2016 10:07 am, "Josh Reynolds"

Re: Network Storage

2012-04-15 Thread Andrew Thrift
If you want something from a Tier1 the new Dell R720XD's will take 24x 900GB SAS disks and have 16 cores. If you order it with a SAS6-HBA you can add up to 8 trays of 24 x 900GB SAS disks to provide 194TB of raw space at quite a reasonable cost. Alternatively, you could have a couple of

Re: Advice regarding Cisco/Juniper/HP

2010-06-17 Thread Andrew Thrift
From a technical point of view, I have never worked in a shop that used HP or 3Com for the infrastructure. Dot-com's, telco's, bank's, hosting companies...I haven't seen any of them using 3com or HP. Additionally, I'm not fond of having to deal with a third set of equipment. I'm not

Re: Advice regarding Cisco/Juniper/HP

2010-06-17 Thread Andrew Thrift
I can tell many stories about 3com switches, email me off list, the language used will not be suitable for the list. On 18/06/2010 2:27 a.m., Jack Carrozzo wrote: A couple consulting gigs I did had 3Com stuff since it was cheap and they got educational deals. They were consulting me to put