[167747] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Making of a Router
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Fri Dec 27 21:14:59 2013
Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2013 21:14:37 -0500 (EST)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
To: Baldur Norddahl <baldur.norddahl@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAPkb-7AL2EB3c0e9S+pcNuvXWb1+sJiDf+rt2GVArig+qBboVA@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, 27 Dec 2013, Baldur Norddahl wrote:
> Another told Nick Cameo that if he can afford a 10G link, he can afford
> Juniper. You could not be more wrong. The 10G uplink goes for $0 in initial
> fee and less than $4k / month with unlimited traffic. The Juniper gear is
> $100k up front for two routers able to handle the 10G links.
>
> What I get from you guys is that in your opinion it is not possible to set
> up a small ISP without spending a ton on Juniper or Cisco. I am not buying
> that.
Small ISPs don't need 10gb transit connections. Even if you did want
cisco gear capable of handling 10gb transit, it can be done on the
secondary market for a fraction of that $100k figure.
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