[106020] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Line rate gigabit router/switch options
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Kelly :: Blacknight)
Thu Jul 17 16:02:57 2008
From: "Paul Kelly :: Blacknight" <paul@blacknight.com>
To: 'Matthew Huff' <mhuff@ox.com>, "'nanog@nanog.org'" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:02:49 +0100
In-Reply-To: <483E6B0272B0284BA86D7596C40D29F9025A1632@PUR-EXCH07.ox.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Hi Matthew,
The Juniper J6350 boxes are both cost effective and are claimed to do line =
2Gbit/s of IMIX traffic I think.
We've several deployed between multitple DCs in Dublin and a load of J4350 =
at different layers. Stick 2GB of ram into each one and they'll go a long w=
ay.
Paul
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Huff [mailto:mhuff@ox.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 8:21 PM
> To: 'nanog@nanog.org'
> Subject: Line rate gigabit router/switch options
>
> 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 the Ethernet fifo buffer
> due to the 7200 being a cpu based router. A 7600 router 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 Ethernet, Cisco has suggested looking at the
> 3750 switch platform that does BGP since 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
> effective options are with other vendors or even other
> possible cisco solutions.
>
>
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