[c-nsp] BGP router upgrade

[nigel cooper]

If it helps, recently upgraded the corporate from a 7206 to 3925 for the corporate 1GB connection which works well and has no performance issues, full bgp table.
Also using 7604s for the diverse production ISPs 10GB connex also no issues, full bgp table.

Installed and forgotten.


Cisco 7206VXR (NPE-G2) processor (revision A) with 917504K/65536K bytes of memory.
MPC7448 CPU at 1666Mhz, Implementation 0, Rev 2.2
6 slot VXR midplane, Version 2.11

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Cisco CISCO3925-CHASSIS (revision 1.0) with C3900-SPE200/K9 with 691200K/291840K bytes of memory.
4 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces
256K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory.
250880K bytes of ATA System CompactFlash 


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Cisco CISCO7604 (M8500) processor (revision 2.0) with 851968K/65536K bytes of memory.
BASEBOARD: RSP720
CPU: MPC8548_E, Version: 2.0, (0x80390020)
CORE: E500, Version: 2.0, (0x80210020)
CPU:1200MHz, CCB:400MHz, DDR:200MHz,


1 Virtual Ethernet interface
50 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces
16 Ten Gigabit Ethernet interfaces
3964K bytes of non-volatile configuration memory.

sho mod
Mod Ports Card Type                              Model              Serial No.
--- ----- -------------------------------------- ------------------ -----------
  1    2  Route Switch Processor 720 (Active)    RSP720-3C-GE       
  2   48  48-port 10/100/1000 RJ45 EtherModule   WS-X6148A-GE-TX    
  3    8  CEF720 8 port 10GE with DFC            WS-X6708-10GE      
  4    8  CEF720 8 port 10GE with DFC            WS-X6708-10GE 



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From: Lars Eidsheim <lhe at intellit.no>
To: "cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net" <cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net>
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 7:31 AM
Subject: [c-nsp] BGP router upgrade

Hi all,

I am looking for a thoughts about a BGP edge router upgrade.

I am planning to upgrade our BGP edge from a Cisco 7200/NPE-G1. The NPE-G1 suits our needs at the moment, but as we are looking to interconnect with more services, do more localpeerings and implement IPv6 in near future this might a good timing to upgrade.

As we are running a few 6500s in our network already I was thinking to install a 6500 with SUP720-3BXL and a 6724-SFP linecard to replace our existing 7200 platform. The 3BXL will keep-up with full BGP feed and the platform can easily be upgraded to 10 gbit/s with a new line card (in example 6704-10GE).

I know others are using the 6500/SUP720-3BXL for this purpose, but as the 6500 is designed a  switch platform i would like hear others opinion on the subject? Maybe I should be looking to other platforms as well, like Huawei or Juniper?


Rgrds

Lars Eidsheim

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