Even RB1100 ? That would be my choice. 399$ for 13 GigE ports...
F. On 2010-09-08, at 8:53 PM, Faisal Imtiaz wrote: > 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<m...@smarterbroadband.net <mailto: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. 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