For investment protection I recommend Cisco ASR1001, It is an ISP class gear that allows you to add services as you grow without performance degradation.
Check it out. http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10878/index.html On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 1:31 AM, Josh Baird <joshba...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a router recommendation for a very small ISP. The > router will terminate two ethernet circuits from two upstream ISPs - a > total of around 100mbit between the two ISPs. The router will have a > BGP session with each provider and should be able to handle full > tables from both. In addition, the router will play via iBGP with > other routers on my network. Beyond that, I don't have many > requirements. > > The router will be uplinked to a 3560 (a "core" in this scenario). > I'm assuming that the router will need at least two FE interfaces for > upstream ISP connections, and one (or more) GB connections to uplink > to my 3560: > > <ISP 1>& <ISP 2> ===== [3845] ---- [3560] > > Firstly, is this how you would approach connectivity between the > router and the core? > > Secondly, I was thinking about a 3845 with 1GB of RAM for this > project. Is this sufficient? > > Thanks for any advice you may be able to give. > > Thanks, > > Josh > > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > -- Best Regards, Mounir Mohamed, CCIE No.19573 (R&S, SP) Senior Network Engineer, Core Team. NOOR Data Networks, SAE Mobile# +2-010-2345-956 http://mounirmohamed.wordpress.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/mounirmohamed _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/