Brent, Your options include, for smaller boxes: - Brocade CER series, but make sure you the -RT versions due to RAM (haven't tried, though) - Juniper MX (MX80 is working well for us) - Cisco ASR1006 (heard a lot about BGP price issues)
But for 300mb/sec, what not OpenBSD + Quagga? Tom ----- Original Message ----- > I was very happy with the E300 as a data center core switch handling > multiple full feeds (around 15) with about 10x the traffic you are > talking about. The only problem I had was that Force10 didn't have > a useful (basically forklift) upgrade to get more IPv4 prefixes, and > the more I talked to them and the more I showed them the graphs > demonstrating what we'd need for prefix space assuming even the most > conservative assumptions at depletion, the more I realized they > really Did Not Get It. In fact, their brand new architecture > recently announced had only 500k prefixes allowed, at a time that > the Juniper MX platform handled 2million easily. > > So I would be fine using Force10 again, given the following changes: > 1. Large limits on IP prefixes allowed > 2. Reallocation of useless memory from stupid things like MAC tables > to prefixes (data centers have very few MACs, very many prefixes) > 3. Command line logging > > The units worked great at failover, never had any problems gracefully > failing over from one RP to another, but if you have to cold boot > them for any reason it takes like 5 minutes :( > > On Mar 27, 2012, at 2:21 PM, Roberts, Brent wrote: > > Is anyone running an E300 Series Chassis at the internet edge with > > multiple Full BGP feeds? 95th percent would be about 300 meg of > > traffic. BGP session count would be between 2 and 4 Peers. > > 6k internal Prefix count as it stands right now. Alternative are > > welcome. Thought about the ASR1006 but I need some local switching > > as well. > > > > Full requirements include > > Full internet Peering over GigE Links. > > Fully Redundant Power > > Redundant "Supervisor/Route Processor" > > Would prefer a Small Chassis unit. (under 10u) > > Would also prefer a single unit as opposed to a two smaller units. > > > > > > ________________________________ > > > > This email and any attached files may contain confidential and/or > > privileged material and is intended solely for the use of the > > person to whom it is addressed. Any review, retransmission, > > dissemination or other use of or taking of any action in reliance > > upon this information by persons or entities other than the > > intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, > > please contact the sender immediately and delete it and all > > attachments from your computer. Progressive Solutions is not > > liable for any errors or omissions in the content or transmission > > of this email. > > -- > Jo Rhett > Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source > and other randomness > >
