[173621] in North American Network Operators' Group
Upgrade Path Options from 6500 SUP720-3BXL for Edge Routing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Corey Touchet)
Tue Jul 29 18:51:53 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Corey Touchet <corey.touchet@corp.totalserversolutions.com>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2014 02:21:32 +0000
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
I=92m curious what other providers have gone with when moving away from SUP=
720-3BXL 6500 platforms. I=92m platform agnostic and just as comfortable w=
ith Juniper as with Cisco.
It=92s a conversation were having since the 3BXL=92s are running into limit=
s with the large number of prefixes, long eBGP convergence times, and 10G p=
ort density.
Basically were looking to carry multiple full routing tables from several 4=
+ carriers plus internet exchange traffic so the ability to handle 1-2M IPV=
4 and 500K+ IPv6 and decent 10G port density and/or 40G options as well. A=
lso should have decent CPU capabilities so it can crunch routes in a reason=
able amount of time.
Right now my thinking are MX480 or ASR9k platforms. Opinions on those are =
equally welcome as alternatives, but I=92d love to hear from those with per=
sonal experiences today vs sales people trying to tell me it would route th=
e world :)
Thanks,
Corey T
