Re: What Platform for a small ISP (was: Cisco 7600 (7609) as a core BGP router)

2009-07-22 Thread David Storandt
Why are you a "small start-up" and needing 600M-1G of pipe, and from 3x carriers? You can't use 150-200M via GigE ports and scale as needed (assuming you aren't bound to a SONET loop)? We started our IP backbone in 2005 with 3x 300M connections on 6509/maxed-Sup2s with 85% BGP tables and 6516-GBIC

RE: What Platform for a small ISP (was: Cisco 7600 (7609) as a core BGP router)

2009-07-22 Thread R. Benjamin Kessler
On 7/22/09 9:48 AM, Jim Wininger wrote: > What do you consider a "small start-up ISP"? What kind of upstream > connectivity are you considering (or at least falls under the category of > small isp) bandwidht, bgp etc? two or three upstreams - OC-12 to 1G to each (BGP full tables) three "POPs" me

Re: What Platform for a small ISP (was: Cisco 7600 (7609) as a core BGP router)

2009-07-22 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 09:39:25AM -0400, R. Benjamin Kessler wrote: > There has been a lot of good feedback regarding the deficiencies of the > 7600 platform... > > So, the new question is: what platforms should a small, start-up ISP > consider when looking to provide Ethernet services to their c

Re: What Platform for a small ISP (was: Cisco 7600 (7609) as a core BGP router)

2009-07-22 Thread Manu Chao
Juniper M10i versus Cisco ASR 1000 On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Jim Wininger wrote: > What do you consider a "small start-up ISP"? What kind of upstream > connectivity are you considering (or at least falls under the category of > small isp) bandwidht, bgp etc? > > > On 7/22/09 9:39 AM, "R. B

Re: What Platform for a small ISP (was: Cisco 7600 (7609) as a core BGP router)

2009-07-22 Thread Jim Wininger
What do you consider a "small start-up ISP"? What kind of upstream connectivity are you considering (or at least falls under the category of small isp) bandwidht, bgp etc? On 7/22/09 9:39 AM, "R. Benjamin Kessler" wrote: > There has been a lot of good feedback regarding the deficiencies of the