[c-nsp] Peering Router/Switch

[Mark Tinka]

On 5/Oct/15 13:10, Nick Hilliard wrote:

> 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.

All true.

Mark.