[c-nsp] Cheap BGP router for ~20k prefixes

[Chris Stone]

Vyos - www.vyos.net


Chris



On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 8:53 AM, Gert Doering <gert at greenie.muc.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 10:35:49AM -0400, Dan Brisson wrote:
> > Looking for suggestions for a device (switch/router) that can speak BGP
> > and do around 20k prefixes.  The other requirement is minimum 500Mb/s of
> > throughput, which seems to throw a low-end Cisco router out of the mix.
> > I know a 3560 switch can do BGP and wouldn't have the throughput
> > limitations the router lines have.  The cost is probably going to creep
> > up again though when adding Enterprise code for BGP support.
>
> ASR920 or so...  throughput will be fine, price of 2000$ "should" be
> achievable (depending on interface and license options).
>
> The caveat, of course, is that it will do exactly 20k prefixe, no more
> - so if you might go "up to 30k", it's not the platform
>
> Or a used 7201 / 7200/NPE-G2...  dirt cheap, 500k+ prefixes, but not much
> more than 500Mbit/s throughput.
>
> Your triangle of "number of prefixes / price / throughput" is hitting a
> somewhat weak spot in Cisco's portfolio...
>
> gert
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