[159922] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: switch 10G standalone TOR, core to DC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Summers, William)
Tue Jan 29 10:09:17 2013
From: "Summers, William" <wsummers@deerfield.edu>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:08:57 -0500
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
We use IBM networking (used to be BLADE networks) Rackswitch 8264. They wil=
l do TRILL, and have multi-chassis link aggregation, they call vLAG. We use=
this for cross datacenter aggregation. They do have the L3 features you a=
re looking for and BGP as a possibility, but no full tables. It is a cut-t=
hrough switch (although this can be toggled in software to store and forwar=
d in later switch os). I believe, although I can't find the doc where I re=
ad this at the moment, the packet buffer is 2G, but shared among ports. =20
Enterasys S-Series is also an option, but the 10G port densities are much l=
ower. S-Series has large packet buffers, chassis bonding, and L3 features (=
some modules support full bgp tables).=20
