[c-nsp] Cisco 7600 (7609) as core BGP router.

[Mark Tinka]

On Saturday 18 July 2009 05:40:30 am Jim Wininger wrote:

> Does anyone have any recommendations on the 7600's as a
> core BGP router? Good or bad? Have they been a stable
> platform in a core/BGP environment?

I believe it should work well as a core router, i.e., it has 
the grunt to haul lots of traffic around (assuming you're 
going for the RSP720 supervisor engine), minimal feature 
configuration as most core routers would have, e.t.c.

The only trick with this platform as a core router (well, in 
our case, at least) is that it's optimized for Ethernet, 
really. So unless all your links to your other PoP's (which 
generally terminate into your core) are Ethernet, it might 
start to get pretty expensive sticking SIP's/SPA's into this 
platform to support SONET/SDH and the like for your external 
PoP links, particularly if you're on the lower end of 
things, e.g., OC-3/STM-1, OC-12/STM-4, e.t.c.

Cheers,

Mark.
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