[c-nsp] Router recommendation

Rodney Dunn rodunn at cisco.com
Wed Sep 13 21:08:37 EDT 2006


Rick,

I don't work in the BB agg space a lot but it sounds to me
like your options would be:

72xx with the new NPE-G2

or either a 10k box. I've worked on a 10k box handling over 25k sessions
running well over a gig before.

I'm sure others with them in deployment can give you some references.

Rodney

On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 05:36:43PM -0700, Rick Kunkel wrote:
> Heya folks... I'm pretty dim on the upper lever Cisco gear, and we're in
> the market for something burlier than the 7206 we've currently got.  I
> need some suggestions for products...
> 
> The requirements:
> 
> 1. We're terminating a DSL Aggregation DS-3, so there must be an
> electrical and/or optical DS-3 module available for it.
> 
> 2.  At least 3 GigEthernet ports, either somewhat built-in or in modules.
> 
> 3.  Capable of handling at least 3 full BGP routing tables.
> 
> 4.  Must be able to do operating-system-wise everything that our current
> 7206 does, like "atm route-bridged ip" stuff and 802.1Q.  (I have a
> feeling this is kind of a "it goes without saying" type of requirement,
> but I wanted to be clear...)
> 
> 5.  Able to route/switch about 1Gbps from the various internet facing
> interfaces to the various internal facing interfaces.  (I'm sure this is
> not a simple answer, but unfortunately, that's about all I've got to go on
> right now.)
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Rick Kunkel
> 
> 
> 
> 
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