[106426] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Software router state of the art
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Mon Jul 28 15:39:07 2008
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:38:38 -0400
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
To: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>, nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <488E163F.6030305@rollernet.us>
Reply-To: deepak@ai.net
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Another option (if you want a pure Cisco platform) would be to buy a
used Cisco 7500 or 7200 and put a T3 card in there. Those are probably
super cheap through reseller channels. (<<$20K for a 1+1).
A quick scan of Ebay shows a PA-MC-T3 for <$3K, a 7505 +RSP4+PS for $300
and a fast ethernet blade for $30.00.
Excluding software licenses (assuming its not running something that its
not perpetually licensed to something that will run the T3 card) you are
looking at about $3K per T3 in HW.
Deepak
