[180025] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Low Cost 10G Router
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Colton Conor)
Tue May 19 22:06:30 2015
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Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 21:06:26 -0500
From: Colton Conor <colton.conor@gmail.com>
To: Faisal Imtiaz <faisal@snappytelecom.net>
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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So this new $1295 Mikrotik CCR1036-8G-2S+EM has a 36 core Tilera CPU with
16GB of ram. Each core is running at 1.2Ghz? I assume that Mikrotik is
multicore in software, so why does this box not outperform these intel
boxes that everyone is recommending? Is it just a limitation of ports?
On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 6:03 PM, Faisal Imtiaz <faisal@snappytelecom.net>
wrote:
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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
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Best of luck.
>
>
> Faisal Imtiaz
> Snappy Internet & Telecom
>
