[106431] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Software router state of the art
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Mon Jul 28 16:16:40 2008
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:15:16 -0500
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: Chris Stebner <chris.stebner@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <488E259A.1020300@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Chris Stebner wrote:
> This solution can most be definitely be had for under 5 grand. with the
> RSP4+'s (ECC mem) youd be looking at greater than 99.99 percent uptime
> if configured with SSO.
But if you end up needing BGP with full routes, throw that out the window. The
RSP16's are expensive (even used relative to the RSP4) and usually necessarily
for memory due to the current global routing table size. They are still cheap on
the used market compared to list of most vendors, though.
Jack
