[c-nsp] Router recommendation for small ISP

[Rens]

This ASR1001 makes the 1002-fixed a bit useless no?

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From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
[mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Mounir Mohamed
Sent: donderdag 17 februari 2011 1:10
To: Josh Baird
Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Router recommendation for small ISP

For investment protection I recommend Cisco ASR1001, It is an ISP class gear
that allows you to add services as you grow without performance degradation.

Check it out.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10878/index.html

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 1:31 AM, Josh Baird <joshbaird at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm looking for a router recommendation for a very small ISP.  The
> router will terminate two ethernet circuits from two upstream ISPs - a
> total of around 100mbit between the two ISPs.  The router will have a
> BGP session with each provider and should be able to handle full
> tables from both.  In addition, the router will play via iBGP with
> other routers on my network.  Beyond that, I don't have many
> requirements.
>
> The router will be uplinked to a 3560 (a "core" in this scenario).
> I'm assuming that the router will need at least two FE interfaces for
> upstream ISP connections, and one (or more) GB connections to uplink
> to my 3560:
>
> <ISP 1>& <ISP 2> ===== [3845] ---- [3560]
>
> Firstly, is this how you would approach connectivity between the
> router and the core?
>
> Secondly, I was thinking about a 3845 with 1GB of RAM for this
> project.  Is this sufficient?
>
> Thanks for any advice you may be able to give.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Josh
>
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