[115851] in North American Network Operators' Group
BGP Growth projections
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Radabaugh)
Fri Jul 10 12:43:28 2009
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:42:24 -0400
From: Mark Radabaugh <mark@amplex.net>
To: nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I'm looking for new core routers for a small ISP and having a hard time
finding something appropriate and reasonably priced. We don't have
huge traffic levels (<1Gb) and are mostly running Ethernet interfaces to
upstreams rather than legacy interfaces (when did OC3 become legacy?).
Lot's of choices for routers that can handle the existing BGP tables -
but not so much in small platforms (1-10Gb traffic) if you assume that
IPv6 is going to explode the routing table in the next 5 years. The
manufacturers still seem to think low traffic routers don't need much
memory or CPU.
What projections are you using regarding the default free zone over the
next 5 years when picking new hardware?
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Mark Radabaugh
Amplex
419.837.5015 x21
mark@amplex.net
