[177302] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Recommended L2 switches for a new IXP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Hammett)
Mon Jan 12 08:11:45 2015
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From: Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net>
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I look forward to this thread.=20
I think one important thing is who is your addressable market size? I'm wor=
king with a startup IXP and there's only 20 carriers in the building. A cha=
ssis based switch would be silly as there would never be that many people p=
resent. 2x 1U switches would be more than plenty in their environment.=20
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Mike Hammett=20
Intelligent Computing Solutions=20
http://www.ics-il.com=20
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From: "Manuel Mar=C3=ADn" <mmg@transtelco.net>=20
To: nanog@nanog.org=20
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2015 12:35:15 AM=20
Subject: Recommended L2 switches for a new IXP=20
Dear Nanog community=20
We are trying to build a new IXP in some US Metro areas where we have=20
multiple POPs and I was wondering what do you recommend for L2 switches. I=
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know that some IXPs use Nexus, Brocade, Force10 but I don't personally have=
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experience with these switches. It would be great if you can share your=20
experience and recommendations. There are so many options that I don't know=
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if it makes sense to start with a modular switch (usually expensive because=
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the backplane, dual dc, dual CPU, etc) or start with a 1RU high density=20
switch that support new protocols like Trill and that supposedly allow you=
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to create Ethernet Fabric/Clusters. The requirements are simple, 1G/10G=20
ports for exchange participants, 40G/100G for uplinks between switches and=
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flow support for statistics and traffic analysis.=20
Thank you and have a great day.=20
Regards=20
