[167657] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Making of a Router
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Faisal Imtiaz)
Thu Dec 26 11:47:12 2013
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2013 16:46:47 +0000 (GMT)
From: Faisal Imtiaz <faisal@snappytelecom.net>
To: Nick Cameo <symack@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAGWRaZZLk643=vkhp28orrfoXG7Bq9Yg7E4K6KwC7Z0yS3RYNA@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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I am a believer of not having to re-invent the wheel...
Having said that.. have you looked at 'purpose built appliances' e.g.
http://www.lannerinc.com/
http://us.axiomtek.com/
If you are looking for a full router....
Consider such as these...
http://www.linktechs.net/
http://www.maxxwave.com/
and there are a few others but the concept is the same
Personally, I am not a believer in making a single device be the do all / end all of everything..
While one can do everything on a big server .. however breaking things out e.g. voip trans-coding and routing make maintenance, availability, and ability to create redundancy much more practical.
Regards
Faisal Imtiaz
Snappy Internet & Telecom
----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nick Cameo" <symack@gmail.com>
> To: nanog@nanog.org
> Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2013 11:33:13 AM
> Subject: The Making of a Router
>
> Hello Everyone,
>
> We are looking to put together a 2u server with a few PCIe 3 x8
> (recommendations appreciated). The router will take a voip transcoding
> line card, and will act as an edge router for a telecom company.
>
> For things like BGP (Quagga, Zebra, all that lovely stuff!!!), static
> routes, and firewall capabilities we are thinking gentoo linux
> stripped for sure however, what about the BSDs? FreeBSD or OpenBSD.
> Any comments, feedback, does, and don'ts are much appreciated.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Nick.
>
>
