[167684] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Making of a Router
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Thu Dec 26 18:42:58 2013
To: Nick Cameo <symack@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 26 Dec 2013 11:33:13 -0500."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2013 18:41:37 -0500
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Thu, 26 Dec 2013 11:33:13 -0500, Nick Cameo said:
> 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.
Two things you want to do:
1) Split this into multiple boxes if you can. That makes maintaining
one component a lot easier, especially when you get to point 2, which is...
2) Redundancy/failover. Sure, it may be more expensive, but the first
time your HA failover changes a 2AM "Holy Crap" into an "Oh, bother" it
will be worth the price of admission....
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