[67295] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cisco Router best for full BGP on a sub 5K bidget 7500 7200 or othervendor ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sthaug@nethelp.no)
Sat Feb 7 07:34:22 2004
To: alexander@etheric.net
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: sthaug@nethelp.no
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 7 Feb 2004 02:48:32 -0800"
Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 13:32:21 +0100
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> I have been looking for a sub 5K router on the used market to support
> around 30-50 megs peak traffic.
...
> We are looking at a pure Ethernet environment - but with the desire to
> support a lot of value added services - such as IPSEC, VoIP, traffic
> accounting. Cisco's have traditionally been good at PRI and T-1 and T-3
> type interfaces - which we don't really need -which leads me to think
> Foundry might be an option.
With a pure Ethernet environment, a 7140-2FE with 256 MB should do the
job wonderfully. I see a 7140-2FE on Ebay right now for $3000 - you'd
probably need some more memory, but under $5000 should be easily doable
(even if you want to do it legally and get an IOS license transfer from
Cisco).
Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no
