[177294] in North American Network Operators' Group
Recommended L2 switches for a new IXP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (=?UTF-8?Q?Manuel_Mar=C3=ADn?=)
Mon Jan 12 01:35:24 2015
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Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 23:35:15 -0700
From: =?UTF-8?Q?Manuel_Mar=C3=ADn?= <mmg@transtelco.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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Dear Nanog community
We are trying to build a new IXP in some US Metro areas where we have
multiple POPs and I was wondering what do you recommend for L2 switches. I
know that some IXPs use Nexus, Brocade, Force10 but I don't personally have
experience with these switches. It would be great if you can share your
experience and recommendations. There are so many options that I don't know
if it makes sense to start with a modular switch (usually expensive because
the backplane, dual dc, dual CPU, etc) or start with a 1RU high density
switch that support new protocols like Trill and that supposedly allow you
to create Ethernet Fabric/Clusters. The requirements are simple, 1G/10G
ports for exchange participants, 40G/100G for uplinks between switches and
flow support for statistics and traffic analysis.
Thank you and have a great day.
Regards
