[167061] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What routers do folks use these days?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Varriale)
Fri Nov 29 11:06:33 2013
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 10:05:48 -0600
From: Tony Varriale <tvarriale@comcast.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <529827FC.8040603@forethought.net>
Reply-To: tvarriale@comcast.net
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On 11/28/2013 11:37 PM, Jawaid Desktop wrote:
> We're a service provider, and we have a network full of Cat6509's. We
> are finding that we are outgrowing them from the standpoint of their
> ability to handle lots of large routing tables. Obviously their
> switching capability is still superb but one of them with 20 peers is
> starting to groan a bit and RAM is going to be an issue soon.
>
> What do people use these days? Our backbone needs in the next 2-3
> years are going to be sub-100Gbps.
>
>
> Jawaid
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>
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want, you'll be interested in the ASR1ks and ASR9ks.
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