[79415] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Router choice for medium size hosting provider
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Radabaugh)
Wed Apr 6 20:14:31 2005
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 20:14:06 -0400
From: Mark Radabaugh <mark@amplex.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <200504071013421.SM01056@Slimey>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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Alex Campbell wrote:
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| Hi everyone,
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| I'm looking for a new router to connect our data center to our tier
| 1 ISP via a 50mbps fibre link. Does anyone have any advice about
| what level of Cisco router would be required to saturate this link?
|
|
| We're looking at the 2811 but I can't get any real world data about
| whether it can route packets at 50mbps - this seems doubtful
| although unclear from the information on the Cisco data sheets.
|
| (I'm aware that a cheap PC running Linux could provide similar
| throughput to a $20000 Cisco router but for a variety of reasons
| I'm reluctant to follow this path).
|
| Thanks,
|
| Alex
|
Do you need BGP? That's going to make a big difference in what you
want to use. An idea on the number/type of interfaces you need would
be helpful as well.
Mark Radabaugh
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