Non of the sub $1000 appliances will cut the mustard at 300-500meg of traffic... 100meg no problem.
Faisal Imtiaz Snappy Internet & Telecom On 9/8/2010 8:44 PM, Glenn Kelley wrote: > vyatta has a $799 routing appliance that will work - > pfsense - on hardware will do it for free - (what an amazing price) > > :-) > > > On Sep 8, 2010, at 7:40 PM, Faisal Imtiaz wrote: > >> 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<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >>> 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. 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