[106019] in North American Network Operators' Group
Line rate gigabit router/switch options
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Huff)
Thu Jul 17 15:22:04 2008
From: Matthew Huff <mhuff@ox.com>
To: "'nanog@nanog.org'" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:21:19 -0400
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0807171330470.25989@sugar.meniscus.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
We have a pair of cisco 7204VXR routers connecting to STFI receiving market=
data. At peak periods micro-bursts of unicast and multicast data overrun t=
he Ethernet fifo buffer due to the 7200 being a cpu based router. A 7600 ro=
uter would be a good replacement but it isn't cost effective. We need BGP, =
rip, pim multicast and netflow. Since the connections are all metro Etherne=
t, Cisco has suggested looking at the 3750 switch platform that does BGP si=
nce all of the packets are hardware switched, but it doesn't due L3 netflow=
. I've been doing cisco for too long and was wondering what the cost effect=
ive options are with other vendors or even other possible cisco solutions.
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