[168024] in North American Network Operators' Group
10gbps peering subscriber switch recommendation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (randal k)
Mon Jan 6 12:57:22 2014
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 10:57:06 -0700
From: randal k <nanog@data102.com>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Good morning,
We're in the market to move our IX peering off of our core (too much
BGP/CPU :-/ ) and onto a dedicated switch.
Anybody have a recommendation on a switch that can do the following
without costing a fortune? I have scoured Cisco, and bang for the buck
is ... ASR9k (way over powered for handling zero-feature IX traffic),
3-8x 10gbps ports
64k routes minimum, preferably 128k
Must be able to speak BGP
Native/functional IPv6 would be sharp!
Basic QoS to police our ports
The prefix count seems to be the killer, as our exchange table is
getting pretty big (42k+ currently). I'm really tempted to build a
vyatta box or similar, but would rather do something off the shelf --
especially if it can be 1-2 gens old and cost effective.
I'm certain that this same situation is scratching many other folks as
exchanges become more important.
Thanks for your input in advance -- stay warm!
Randal
