[c-nsp] Cisco 7304 as a Border router

[Robert Blayzor]

We are exploring purchasing a couple of new border routers for our 
network.  We've explored the 7600's but they seem to be way overkill for 
what we want to do.

Day one we will probably use them to aggregate a few DS3/OC3 connections 
to upstreams with full BGP tables, etc.  We also want to use them for 
some aggregated Ethernet connections over Gig-E...

We've looked at the pluses and minuses of the NSE100 vs the G100.  It 
seems the G100's processing power and DRAM capacity is a better fit for 
us, especially for the routing tables.

I'm looking for anyones comments or experiences with using 7300's in a 
border router deployment and if it's meeting your needs.  I'm curious as 
to what type and how much traffic you are pushing through it.

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