[70068] 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 (Alexei Roudnev)
Wed Apr 28 04:14:10 2004
From: "Alexei Roudnev" <alex@relcom.net>
To: "Alexander Hagen" <alexander@etheric.net>,
"Robert E. Seastrom" <rs@seastrom.com>
Cc: <charlie@nextweb.net>, "'Mikael Abrahamsson'" <swmike@swm.pp.se>,
"'Tom (UnitedLayer)'" <tom@unitedlayer.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>,
<rs@seastrom.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 01:13:44 -0700
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
7206 is one of the _BEST_ Cisco routers, if we compare all parameters
((including numbert of bugs and simplicity).
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs@seastrom.com>
To: "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>; <rs@seastrom.com>
Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 4:44 AM
Subject: Re: Cisco Router best for full BGP on a sub 5K bidget 7500 7200 or
other vendor ?
>
>
> "Alexander Hagen" <alexander@etheric.net> writes:
>
> > What about a 7505 w/ RSP4/256 and 2 VIP 2-50/128s with 4 PA-FE-TXs.
> >
> > For additional port density a 3550 ?
> >
> > What is better about the 7206 VXR ?
>
> Fewer software bugs, simpler platform, half the vertical space in the
> rack, redundant power supplies, built-in faste on the IO controller
> (if you get that kind).
>
> ---Rob
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>