[138198] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Switch with 10 Gig and GRE support in hardware.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Bonser)
Mon Feb 28 20:52:33 2011
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:50:36 -0800
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin_1y=si1N1kpq1MKUsy+b=er+cEARQ_81eDHFR@mail.gmail.com>
From: "George Bonser" <gbonser@seven.com>
To: "Jeff Hartley" <intensifysecurity@gmail.com>,
"Matt Newsom" <matt.newsom@rackspace.com>, "NANOG list" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> From: Jeff Hartley=20
> Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 5:06 PM
> To: Matt Newsom; NANOG list
> Subject: Re: Switch with 10 Gig and GRE support in hardware.
>=20
> On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 3:15 PM, George Bonser <gbonser@seven.com>
> wrote:
> >> On 2/18/11 6:30 AM, "Matt Newsom" <matt.newsom@rackspace.com> =
wrote:
> >>
> >> > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0I am looking for a switch with a =
minimum of 12 =A0X
> > 10GE
> >> >ports on it, that can has routing protocol support and can do GRE
> in
> >> >hardware. Does anyone have a suggestion that might fit. Keep in
> mind
> > I
> >> am
> >> >looking for something in the 1-2U range and not a chassis.
> >> >
> >> >
> >
> > Hard to tell from the data sheet:
> >
> > http://www.xbridgeservices.com/images/files/7450_ess.pdf
> >
> > But it looks like the Alcatel-Lucent 7450 ESS-1 might do it. =A0Not
> sure
> > if it has 4, 8, or 12 10G ports, though. =A0The data sheet is =
confusing
> to
> > me and it would be oversubscribed but that might be OK in your
> > applications.
> >
> >
> >
> >
>=20
>=20
> Brocade TurboIron 24X fits all of those criteria.
>=20
> -Jeff
Last time I checked, the TI24x wouldn't do GRE. =20
