[177312] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Recommended L2 switches for a new IXP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin Wilson - MTIN)
Mon Jan 12 10:34:30 2015
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From: Justin Wilson - MTIN <lists@mtin.net>
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Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 10:34:21 -0500
To: nanog@nanog.org
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Like Mike says, it depends on your market. Are these markets where =
there are existing exchanges?=20
Cost per port is what we always look at. If we are going into a market =
where there won=E2=80=99t be much growth we look at Cisco and Force 10. =
Their cost per port is usually cheaper for smaller 10 Gig switches. You =
need something that is fairly robust.
Reliability in an exchange is a key component. If you go with a =
non-chassis switch make sure you have redundancy in your design. We =
like Chassis based switches because they tend to be more robust. But =
thats just my take on it.
Justin
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> On Jan 12, 2015, at 10:24 AM, Aaron <aaron@wholesaleinternet.net> =
wrote:
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> We used to use Brocade FastIrons until we needed more 10G port =
density. We moved to Brocade SX's.
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> Originally, when it was 2 or 3 peers, we used an old Netgear switch. =
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> Aaron
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> On 1/12/2015 7:07 AM, Mike Hammett wrote:
>> I look forward to this thread.
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>> I think one important thing is who is your addressable market size? =
I'm working with a startup IXP and there's only 20 carriers in the =
building. A chassis based switch would be silly as there would never be =
that many people present. 2x 1U switches would be more than plenty in =
their environment.
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>> Mike Hammett
>> Intelligent Computing Solutions
>> http://www.ics-il.com
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>> ----- Original Message -----
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>> From: "Manuel Mar=C3=ADn" <mmg@transtelco.net>
>> To: nanog@nanog.org
>> Sent: Monday, January 12, 2015 12:35:15 AM
>> Subject: Recommended L2 switches for a new IXP
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>> Dear Nanog community
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>> 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.
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>> Thank you and have a great day.
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>> Regards
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