[c-nsp] GigE Edge router

[Kristofer Sigurdsson]

On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 11:19 -0500, Paul Connally wrote:
> We currently have a Cisco 7200 that's running a couple of FastE's and
> a DS3 to our upstream providers (speaking BGP), and 100Mb FE to our
> LAN.  We're about exceed 100Mb across the WAN, so we're looking to
> upgrade to GigE on at least two providers and one of the LAN
> interfaces.
> 
> We would like (if possible) something that is port-dense in the GigE
> area.  Upgrading to a higher end Cisco or Juniper is likely to be
> fairly expensive for both the chassis and multiport Gig cards.  We're
> toying with the idea of something like a Cisco 4507R or 4510R; they
> claim to be able to do layer3 OSPF and BGP, and they offer GigE cards

I don't have any expirience with the 4500 series, but a quick look at
some documentation imply that it can't take a very large routing table,
for the SupV:

"Support for 131,072 entries in routing table (shared between unicast
and multicast)"

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