[180018] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Low Cost 10G Router
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Faisal Imtiaz)
Tue May 19 19:03:24 2015
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Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 23:03:20 +0000 (GMT)
From: Faisal Imtiaz <faisal@snappytelecom.net>
To: Mel Beckman <mel@beckman.org>
In-Reply-To: <DBA366A0-DC08-423C-8898-D420D667FD71@beckman.org>
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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> I've seen serious, unusual performance bottlenecks in Mikrotik CCR, in some
> cases not even achieving a gigabit speeds on 10G interfaces. Performance
> drops more rapidly then Cisco with smaller packet sizes.
>
> -mel beckman
Folks often forget that Mikrotik ROS can also run on x86 machines.....
Size your favorite hardware (server) or network appliance with appropriate ports, add MT ROS on a CF card, and you are good to go.
We use i7 based network appliance with dual 10g cards (you can use a quad 10g card, such as those made by hotlav).
with a 2gig of ram, you can easily do multiple (4-5 or more full bgp peers), and i7 are good for approx 1.2mill pps.
Best of luck.
Faisal Imtiaz
Snappy Internet & Telecom
