[123497] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: T1 aggregation and data center gateways
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Balashov)
Tue Mar 9 20:05:18 2010
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:04:52 -0500
From: Alex Balashov <abalashov@evaristesys.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <175DA64769AE0F4498D813EDBFB44949C144DAF0E7@intexch07.internal.donet.com>
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On 03/09/2010 08:00 PM, Tim Sanderson wrote:
> Currently have T1 aggregation on some Cisco 7206VXR routers. Core switches
> and data center gateways on a couple of Cisco 6509's. Looking for a model
> that could collapse both functions into just two devices, one being for
> hardware redundancy. Any recommendations on a good L3 switch that is
> also a good T1 aggregation device? Anyone have any experience with
> the newer Cisco stuff like the ASR 1000/7600/CRS-1?
Forgive the dumb question, but what's wrong with using a 6509 as a T1
aggregation device? Port density not cost-effective? I've seen it
used that way on a number of occasions with cheap M13 muxes and DS3
interfaces.
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