[70042] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Cisco Router best for full BGP on a sub 5K bidget 7500 7200 or other vendor ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michel Py)
Mon Apr 26 12:53:07 2004
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 09:52:19 -0700
From: "Michel Py" <michel@arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us>
To: "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs@seastrom.com>,
"Alexander Hagen" <alexander@etheric.net>
Cc: <charlie@nextweb.net>, "Alexei Roudnev" <alex@relcom.net>,
"Mikael Abrahamsson" <swmike@swm.pp.se>,
"Tom (UnitedLayer)" <tom@unitedlayer.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> "Alexander Hagen"
> What about a 7505 w/ RSP4/256 and 2 VIP 2-50/128s with 4 PA-FE-TXs.
I would get a 7507 w/redundant RSPs and redundant PS.
=20
> For additional port density a 3550 ?=20
Even a 2650 would do
>> What is better about the 7206 VXR ?=20
> Fewer software bugs,
Not in my experience.
> simpler platform, half the vertical space in the rack,
> redundant power supplies,
Indeed.
The part I missed earlier is that I think Alexander needs to buy the
platform. As of today I can not recommend buying any 7500 as even the
7507 and the 7513 are going to EOL sooner or later. If you can't afford
a 7603, then the 7206VXR with NPE400G and a gigabit trunk to a 3550 is
what I would do.
