Brant Ian Stevens <mailto:bra...@argentiumsolutions.com>
March 28, 2012 11:41 AM
The CER is the perfect box for this application, save for the
redundant processors. The MLXe will work great if you want a small
form factor and redundant processors.
-Brant
George Bonser <mailto:gbon...@seven.com>
March 28, 2012 11:34 AM
I have been using a pair of CER (but not the -RT) at one location for
a while now and so far have been flawless. These particular units
aren't taking full tables so don't need the -RT but I wouldn't have
any trouble using them. The -RT are basically a 1U XMR.
Tom Daly <mailto:t...@dyn.com>
March 27, 2012 11:59 PM
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
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Jo Rhett <mailto:jrh...@netconsonance.com>
March 27, 2012 6:00 PM
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 :(
