[c-nsp] Rec for full-table multi-peer bgp router?

[Adrian Minta]

On 12/01/2016 06:25 PM, Azher Mughal wrote:
> On 12/1/2016 12:28 AM, Adrian Minta wrote:
>>> Thanks Gert & Peter.  I’m going to look into the 9001.  We have a
>>> bunch of Arista in the core doing ospf/ospfv3, the rep there
>>> suggested their 7280SR, which is 48 SFP+, 6 QSFP, and they claim it’s
>>> stable as a BGP router with limitations of 1.2M ipv4 / 768k ipv6
>>> routes, simultaneously, no picking and choosing like Brocade.
>>> Obviously, it’s good price point, but I’m not sure I’m ready to trust
>>> them in an edge router role as I don’t know anyone using them for
>>> BGP.  I’m also not sure how long 1.2M ipv4 routes will be good for
>>> given we’re already over the half way point to that and the table has
>>> been growing regularly after run out.   List is $66k for reference.
>>>
>> The SFP+ ports on 7280SR-48C6 do support 1G optics or they are 10G
>> only like on ASR9001 ?
> https://www.arista.com/assets/data/pdf/Datasheets/7280R-DataSheet.pdf
>
> It seems there is no 1G mentioned in the document about SFP ports.
>
> -Azher
>
>
Yes, but here: https://www.arista.com/en/products/switches they appear 
to be multi-rate.

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Best regards,
Adrian Minta