Thanks a lot for the valuable information. For the 10G port density, do you recommend that I install a 10G port Ethernet switch with router on a stick router like your recommendation for the ASR ?
If so, kindly, what is your recommendation for such a switch ? Appreciate your support. BR On 5 October 2015 at 12:23, Mark Tinka <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 5/Oct/15 11:15, Samir Abid Al-mahdi wrote: > > Hi > Actually i am expecting more than that. > > If we leave the budget constrain, what is your kind recommendation?? > > > Okay, so the NPE-G2 won't help. > > Your decisive factor then becomes how many routes you want to hold. A > switch would be great for peering from a forwarding performance > perspective, but you can't hold a lot of routes. Also, BGP features may be > restricted compared to a typical router (yes, the ASR920, ME3600X/3800X and > ACX5000 can be thought of as routers), but then you can't scale the FIB. > > Assuming you're using the router purely for peering, you'll likely be > holding about 40% - 50% of the global routing table at the high-end. So you > can use older, cheaper hardware-based routers like the Juniper M7i or Cisco > ASR1002 (the latter being the better option of the two). > > As you're going to push beyond 1Gbps, you can consider a LAG to keep your > costs down. If you have to consider a 10Gbps port, then your price could go > up, but you'd still be okay since you can pick these up on the used market > for a reasonable price. > > Mark. > -- Best Regards _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
