[c-nsp] Advice: Which routers to purchase ?

[Jeferson Guardia]

Dovid,

Since your company already owns an AS , external consulting would probably
be the best way to go. Dealing with BGP sometimes can be tricky and needs a
lot of knowledge, it can be very dangerous for a CCNA to try to set this up
like a lab.

But I strongly recommend you these 2 books, so you can understand how BGP
works and you can troubleshoot the install in the future avoiding to call
others.

http://www.amazon.com/BGP-Design-Implementation-Randy-Zhang/dp/1587051095?tag=jasonwiener-20

http://www.amazon.com/Scalable-Internet-Architectures-Theo-Schlossnagle/dp/067232699X?tag=jasonwiener-20

Rgs,

2011/1/27 Andrew Miehs <andrew at 2sheds.de>

> Hi David,
>
> On 27/01/2011, at 5:29 PM, Dovid Bender wrote:
>
> > 1) I do not know much about Cisco. I assumed that if one router failed
> then the second one would do the BGP.
> > 2) We have an AS and I was told that we would need to BGP to advertise
> our IP's. We also need to do it so we are ISP independent and can decide who
> to work with.
>
> I would recommend using BGP in such a circumstance
>
> > 3) What other information would you need ? Like I said I am a bit of n00b
> here.
>
> Budget and Network Plans.
>
> Personally, I would suggest getting some external consulting - perhaps one
> of your providers can provide this.
>
> Depending on how you do your load balancing, you may not require full
> feeds. The hardware you will be looking at will probably be a pair of
> ASR1001s
>
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps9343/prod_models_comparison.html
>
> or a Cisco 3900s
>
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10536/prod_series_comparison.html
>
>
> But all this depends very much on your network plan.
>
>
>
> Regards
>
> Andrew