[c-nsp] BGP router upgrade

[Lars Eidsheim]

Hi all,

I am looking for a thoughts about a BGP edge router upgrade.

I am planning to upgrade our BGP edge from a Cisco 7200/NPE-G1. The NPE-G1 suits our needs at the moment, but as we are looking to interconnect with more services, do more localpeerings and implement IPv6 in near future this might a good timing to upgrade.

As we are running a few 6500s in our network already I was thinking to install a 6500 with SUP720-3BXL and a 6724-SFP linecard to replace our existing 7200 platform. The 3BXL will keep-up with full BGP feed and the platform can easily be upgraded to 10 gbit/s with a new line card (in example 6704-10GE).

I know others are using the 6500/SUP720-3BXL for this purpose, but as the 6500 is designed a  switch platform i would like hear others opinion on the subject? Maybe I should be looking to other platforms as well, like Huawei or Juniper?


Rgrds

Lars Eidsheim

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