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. In addition I need to be able to offer BGP connections
>>>> to customers from this ring of backhauls.
>>>>
>>>> - Matt
>>>>
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