vyatta has a $799 routing appliance that will work - pfsense - on hardware will do it for free - (what an amazing price)
:-) On Sep 8, 2010, at 7:40 PM, Faisal Imtiaz wrote: > Welcome to the Mid-range of traffic handling... > > There is nothing on the market place that is affordable that will do > what you are looking for. > > Best thing you can do is deploy two devices.. a Gig Switch, pick your > favorite vendor... and a Core Router for BGP > > For Core Router in the Cisco world you are looking at something with a > G1 or G2 engine ... (7206vxr or small 7301) range $5k to 10K on the used > market place. > > In Juniper Land... M10i or an M20 (if you like redundancy...) cost on > the secondary markets about $8 to $10k > > You could use a Mikrotik Power Router.. cost $ 2500 to $5000 > > Only the Cisco 7301 and Mikrotik are small and consume little power... > Everything else is big and consumes power. > > Most common, cost efficient network design would be to use GigE Switches > in a ring or your favorite network topology, with one or two Routers > located at DataCenters or NOC... > > > If you find some other solution, that can do what you are looking for, > please share it with us, cause we have been looking too... what I am > sharing above with you is what we have found so far. > > Regards. > > Faisal Imtiaz > Snappy Internet & Telecom > > > On 9/8/2010 7:16 PM, Jon Auer wrote: >> Needing full BGP routes takes you out of the realm of cheap Layer 3 >> switches... >> You need to worry about TCAM (hardware route memory) in addition to >> RAM on Layer 3 switches and apart from decked out Cisco 6500s or >> greater you aren't going to find that. >> >> The Juniper MX80 should work. It is 2U and can have 48 GigE ports. You >> should be able to get it for $30-50K. >> >> Alternatively you could try a multihop BGP setup like Cogent has been >> known to do. >> Setup one BGP session between the customer and your Layer 3 switch at >> the tower. This carriers a route for your border router/route >> reflector to the customer and vice versa. >> Then setup a BGP session between the customer and your border >> router/route reflector. >> >> Or you could drag MPLS into it but 2 simple BGP sessions seems like >> the most straightforward solution to me. >> >> On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Matt Jenkins<m...@smarterbroadband.net> >> wrote: >>> I am trying to find a Layer 3 switch that has 24 or 48 1000 base-T ports >>> with enough RAM to handle Full BGP Internet Routes. Anyone have any >>> suggestions? >>> >>> For those who wonder why.... I am upgrading all of my backhauls to >>> support ~300mbps. In addition I need to be able to offer BGP connections >>> to customers from this ring of backhauls. >>> >>> - Matt >>> >>> >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >>> http://signup.wispa.org/ >>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> >>> WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org >>> >>> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >>> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >>> >>> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >>> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >> > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ _____________________________________________________________________________________ Glenn Kelley | Principle | HostMedic |www.HostMedic.com Email: gl...@hostmedic.com Pplease don't print this e-mail unless you really need to.
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