[166877] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Best band for your buck router and switch (gigabit)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Cameo)
Sat Nov 16 18:18:00 2013
In-Reply-To: <5287A828.1090707@jasonantman.com>
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 18:17:47 -0500
From: Nick Cameo <symack@gmail.com>
To: Jason Antman <jason@jasonantman.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> Post Script: I just went to vyatta.com, and apparently they've been
> acquired by Brocade. The former content of their web site is gone, and
> as far as I can tell from the Brocade site
> (http://www.brocade.com/products/all/network-functions-virtualization/index.page)
> they *seem* to be calling the software solution the "Brocade Vyatta 5400
> vRouter". I assume this means their range of supported hardware devices
> may be done for. Luckily I kept an archive of all of their wonderful
> anti-cisco ads...
>
Too funny. This reminds me of an old experience I had when companies
where acquired and we were left out in the cold..... I think on
Monday, I will make the recommendation to purchase an IBM xServer 3250
M5 (comes 1 PCIe V3 x4 and x8), throw Quagga on there and call it a
day. It will have everything we need except for transcoding? Oh wait!
We can buy hardware transcoder line cards as well. The problem is
there are only two slots, and one I bet is reserved for some raid
controller or something like that...
As for the switch, is the 2960G have a proven track record?
Thanks for everyone's help :)
Nick from Toronto.
