[167086] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What routers do folks use these days?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex White-Robinson)
Fri Nov 29 21:35:21 2013
In-Reply-To: <529827FC.8040603@forethought.net>
From: Alex White-Robinson <alexwr@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 19:00:08 +1300
To: Jawaid Desktop <jb@forethought.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
If you're staying Cisco, probably the ASR1000 series, or the ASR9K,
depending on needs.
You probably don't need CSR routers if you're not going to 100Gbps.
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 6:37 PM, Jawaid Desktop <jb@forethought.net> 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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