I am evaluating the edgerouter line from ubiquity presently. They are octeon based, and one of their higher end boxes has SPF support. Also Routerboard has one in this range. I know of some people mucking with the zynq-7000 chip that can probably get to a high density eventually.
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Charlie Boisseau <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry to change the subject a bit, but this thread has reminded me of > something I thought I might ask: > > Some of our PoPs are filling up at an alarming rate with Virgin Alcatel > demarc boxes that only have one or two ports used. This is mainly because > we have a number of circuits that are on 1Gig bearers, and the Alcatel boxes > only have two gigabit ports (one NNI and one UNI), so typically a 1G > customer circuit will take up 1U of rackspace (nevermind a separate fibre > cross connect to the Virgin ODF). > > Having said that, strangely we just had a new circuit installed into one of > our PoPs that ended up terminating on a LightningEdge LE-311. At least that > box has 4 gig ports - but it's an absolute monster compared to the Alcatel. > > The old Pandatel card+chassis based solution was a lot better suited to > gigabit circuits, because you could get 15 or 16 cards in a 4U chassis (much > like Openreach EADs), but unfortunately Virgin don't offer this anymore. > We've suggested they give us a Transmode box, but I think they only deploy > those for wavelength services, and wouldn't want to waste them on Ethernet > circuits (despite the volume of circuits we give them). > > - Does anyone know of any other EDDs Virgin have been known to use that > might have 10G uplink? > - Does anyone take L2 services from Virgin on a VLAN based delivery? I > know they do this, but I wonder if it's just going to have the same density > issues? > > Any shared experiences here would be helpful in our 'guided suggestions' to > our Virgin account manager! > > Thanks, > > C > > -- > Charlie Boisseau > > Fluency Communications Ltd. > e. [email protected] > w. http://fluency.net.uk/ > t. 0845 874 7000 > > Fluency Communications Ltd. is part of the Commsworld Group. > > This Email and files transmitted with it are confidential and are intended > for the sole use of the individual or organisation addressed. If you have > received this Email in error please notify the sender immediately and delete > it without using, copying, storing, forwarding or disclosing its contents to > any other person While Fluency has endeavoured to ensure that any > attachments do not contain viruses it will not be liable for any losses > incurred by the recipient. Fluency Communications Ltd. Registered in > Scotland. Company Number: SC390685. Registered Office Address: 45 Peffer > Place, Edinburgh, EH16 4BB > > On 12 Aug 2013, at 10:12, Chris Russell <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Are they giving you a layer3 service? Odd they can't use the SPF port > on the Cisco as that cpe has three gig interface on board. > yes, just a regular business service > > > They would always use an Alcatel box as the NTU currently, agreed there is > some level of madness but it's the way they do things I believe for > monitoring (?!). They moved to Alcatel a few years back and had some fun > with learning how to commission, this was after 3-4 years of Lightning Edge. > > For MIA if they use BGP multihop they often put an ME3[4|6|8]00 switch in > the way as well as the Alcatel, for lesser bandwidth's it's Alcatel + > generally Cisco 2900 ish > > Cheers > > Chris > > > > website: www.knowledgeit.co.uk | blog: www.knowledgeit.co.uk/blog | twitter: > @KnowledgeITUK > > Knowledge Limited, Company Registration: 1554385 > Registered Office: New Century House, Crowther Road, Washington, Tyne & > Wear. NE38 0AQ > Leeds Office: Viscount Court, Leeds Road, Rothwell, Leeds. LS26 0GR > > Tel: 0845 142 0020. Fax: 0845 142 0021 > > E-Mail Disclaimer: This e-mail message is intended to be received only by > persons entitled to receive the confidential information it may contain. > E-mail messages to clients of Knowledge IT may contain information that is > confidential and legally privileged. Please do not read, copy, forward, or > store this message unless you are an intended recipient of it. If you have > received this message in error, please forward it to the sender and delete > it completely from your computer system. > > Please consider the environment before printing this email. > > -- Dave Täht Fixing bufferbloat with cerowrt: http://www.teklibre.com/cerowrt/subscribe.html
