Welcome to the Mid-range of traffic handling... There is nothing on the market place that is affordable that will do what you are looking for.
Best thing you can do is deploy two devices.. a Gig Switch, pick your favorite vendor... and a Core Router for BGP For Core Router in the Cisco world you are looking at something with a G1 or G2 engine ... (7206vxr or small 7301) range $5k to 10K on the used market place. In Juniper Land... M10i or an M20 (if you like redundancy...) cost on the secondary markets about $8 to $10k You could use a Mikrotik Power Router.. cost $ 2500 to $5000 Only the Cisco 7301 and Mikrotik are small and consume little power... Everything else is big and consumes power. Most common, cost efficient network design would be to use GigE Switches in a ring or your favorite network topology, with one or two Routers located at DataCenters or NOC... If you find some other solution, that can do what you are looking for, please share it with us, cause we have been looking too... what I am sharing above with you is what we have found so far. Regards. Faisal Imtiaz Snappy Internet & Telecom On 9/8/2010 7:16 PM, Jon Auer wrote: > Needing full BGP routes takes you out of the realm of cheap Layer 3 > switches... > You need to worry about TCAM (hardware route memory) in addition to > RAM on Layer 3 switches and apart from decked out Cisco 6500s or > greater you aren't going to find that. > > The Juniper MX80 should work. It is 2U and can have 48 GigE ports. You > should be able to get it for $30-50K. > > Alternatively you could try a multihop BGP setup like Cogent has been > known to do. > Setup one BGP session between the customer and your Layer 3 switch at > the tower. This carriers a route for your border router/route > reflector to the customer and vice versa. > Then setup a BGP session between the customer and your border > router/route reflector. > > Or you could drag MPLS into it but 2 simple BGP sessions seems like > the most straightforward solution to me. > > On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Matt Jenkins<m...@smarterbroadband.net> > wrote: >> I am trying to find a Layer 3 switch that has 24 or 48 1000 base-T ports >> with enough RAM to handle Full BGP Internet Routes. Anyone have any >> suggestions? >> >> For those who wonder why.... I am upgrading all of my backhauls to >> support ~300mbps. In addition I need to be able to offer BGP connections >> to customers from this ring of backhauls. >> >> - Matt >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org >> >> 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: wireless@wispa.org > > 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: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
