[c-nsp] 10Gb+ "Core" w/ Netflow

[Sascha E. Pollok]

Hello Guys,

>> What about the Cisco 6880-X in this respect? Does anybody use this box as a
>> BGP edge in an ethernet only environment? I’m curious about the real world
>> performance of this box, looking at number of BGP peers, convergence, etc.
>
> That's an x86 platform:
>
>    Cisco C6880-X-LE ( Intel(R) Core(TM) i3- CPU @ 2.00GHz )
>
> We use them as pure Layer 2 core switches, so can't tell you how they do 
> running IP.

we also use them for EBGP and IBGP speakers and routing w/ MPLS.
They perform well although we are still facing some "BGP Event" spikes that we
were not yet able to track down with Cisco. Case open. Others I spoke to 
use the boxes in a similar way but do not observe these problems.

Beside that, quite happy with that box although the CPU is not as fast as 
in a real router like ASR9K1.

Cheers
Sascha