[c-nsp] Peering Router/Switch

[Nick Hilliard]

On 05/10/2015 11:49, Mark Tinka wrote:
> The ASR1002 can take 10Gbps ports, but only 3x.

10g on asr1k is generally not a cost effective proposition.

The OP has not provided any indication of bandwidth requirements other than
"more than 1Gbps of traffic", nor overall budget, nor technical
requirements (policy, mpls, etc).  So there is probably a requirement for
10G ports, but other than that it's not clear.

If the requirement is to do this on the cheap, a brocade CER2000 will
probably work, but it won't scale due to the fact that it only has 4x10G
ports and cannot be expanded.  If it's only a couple of gbit/sec, then
maybe a csr1000v on good quality hardware would work. It would probably
require some tuning work to get reasonable performance out of it, though.

Otherwise a cisco asr9001 or a juniper mx104 would probably be the best
options.  The forwarding capabilities of these two units are comparable,
but the asr9k1 RP is much faster than the current mx104 RE.  I.e. BGP
convergence is much better.

Nick