[c-nsp] Advice on upgrade

[Gary Stanley]

At 03:23 AM 7/7/2007, neb at exemail.com.au wrote:
>Hello,
>
>The time has come for us to upgrade the border router, currently not a Cisco.
>
>The traffic passing on GIGE is around 800 mbp/s
>Have need for 3 GIG ports currently with view to a fourth next quarter. It
>has 17 ACLs (not huge lists).
>
>New to Cisco world (which is why I ask advice here and not a sales rep
>:->), I think I am going to want either a 7304-NSE-100, or 7604 with
>Sup32, or would a 7200 NPE-G2 be more than capable?
>
>We are not in need of BGP as we have a single carrier, but this may change
>in time to come. Would a 7600 be even suitable for our needs as is it more
>or less a layer 3 switch if I understand my research on itbor would it be,
>but it's overkill?
>
>Maybe someone has better device suggestion?
>
>TIA
>Nick

I'd look at the 7201, it has a couple gb of memory, quite a few gig 
ports, only consumes 84W(?) of power, and is in 1u form factor.