Hey Matt, You're back? Or do you just need a break from changing diapers?
-Charles -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Friday, April 10, 2009 7:13 AM To: [email protected]; WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] 10 GigE > All the hard core routing and switching experts I know laugh when > someone suggests Cisco. > > Cisco is like the WalMart of networking equipment. If you need > something, chances are that they have something there that will mostly > do what it is that you need. But if you need something for some > specialized need, then chances are you need to go to Juniper, Foundry, > Nortel, etc. > Of course if you had sent the above to the NANOG list they would be laughing at you. Cisco and Juniper alone are the reining champs of the high-end routing world. Foundry and Nortel are simply not even considered. Right now, the Cisco CRS-1 is considered the best equipment available. Regardless, talking about super high-end routers when Mike is only looking for a few 10 GigE ports is silly. A Cisco 6500/7600 with sup720-3bxl along with your 10 GigE card of choice is typically what is deployed today. There is a newer option from Cisco using one of the ASR series routers. Those will cost you roughly $25k to get started in any reasonable configuration. Whereas the sup720-3bxl option will likely cost you only $25k well equiped with a variety of ports. I would guess a sup720-3bxl platform with 48 10/100/1000 ports, 48 SFP ports, and 4 10 GigE ports would run about $30k used. It is worth noting that the sup720-3bxl has enough TCAM to support up to 1 million routes and has a backplane that can support 720Gbps. -Matt -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
