[c-nsp] bgp router

[Jon Lewis]

On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, Rossella Mariotti-Jones wrote:

> Hello all, we're looking to buy a router on which to run BGP that can
> take full BGP routes, I know all Cisco routers (1800 up) with Advanced
> IP services IOS will do BGP and I've been told that if we max out the
> memory we'll be fine with any router. We're going to need some ports (up
> to 24) in this router. We're looking at a 7604 with sup720-3b and 1gb of
> memory, a 2821 or 2851 with an nme and 1gb of memory, or another
> possibility is the ASR platform, but I haven't looked into this well
> yet. Any recommendations? Thanks in advance.

7600 and 2800 series are very different beasts.  Figure out what sort of 
throughput/backplane capacity you need and that should point you towards 
the apropriate platform.  If you go 7600, don't buy less than the 
sup720-3bxl.  The older sup720-3b, regardless of how much RAM you put on 
it, won't properly handle full routes.

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