[c-nsp] BGP router upgrade

[Pete Templin]

On 8/14/11 8:35 PM, Pete Lumbis wrote:
>> Bottom line, I would under no situation ever consider NPE-G[12] for forwarding
>> Internet peering traffic (wording chosen carefully:). And I have lot of love
>> for them.
>>
> A completely fair statement, it all comes down to throughput
> requirements. A hardware based platform will always beat the pants off
> of a software based platform, but when you talk about control plane
> flexibility and reducing your odds for forwarding problems, software
> is the way to go.

Peering router selection isn't about throughput requirements, it's about 
PPS requirements in the face of what the Internet should decide to throw 
at the router at random time X+pi.

pt