[190172] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 1GE L3 aggregation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Harald F. Karlsen)
Fri Jun 17 06:10:47 2016
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From: "Harald F. Karlsen" <elfkin@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 12:10:38 +0200
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On 16.06.2016 09:51, Saku Ytti wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I've been bit poking around trying to find reasonable option for 1GE
> L3 full BGP table aggregator. It seems vendors are mostly pushing
> Satellite/Fusion for this application.
>
> I don't really like the added complexity and tight coupling
> Satellite/Fusion forces me. I'd prefer standards based routing
> redundancy to reduce impact of defects.
>
> ASR9001 and MX104 are not an options, due to control-plane scale. New
> boxes in vendor pipeline are completely ignoring 1GE.
>
> I've casually talked with other people, and it seems I'm not really
> alone here. My dream box would be 96xSFP + 2xQSFP28, with pretty much
> full edge features (BGP, LDP, ISIS, +1M FIB, +5M RIB, per-interface
> VLANs, ipfix or sflow, at least per-port QoS with shaper, martini
> pseudowires).
>
What about the Huawei NE20E-S2F/NE40E-M2F?
4 * SFP+ and 40 * SFP fixed ports and two PICs with either 4*SFP+ or
1*QSFP each. Decent FIB. Not really sure about the IPFIX/sflow thought.
Pricing seems very aggresive on these devices as well.
--
Harald
