[c-nsp] Cisco 4000 series (4461) as a BGP router?

[Patrick M. Hausen]

Hi!

> Am 28.10.2019 um 09:40 schrieb Saku Ytti <saku at ytti.fi>:
> That'll set you back about the same as new MX204, you need to be
> really committed CSCO shop to go with ASR9001. I would not consider
> that at all, even if it had to be Cisco.

Thanks for that recommendation.

I’m not allergic to Juniper nor any other vendor, although it is traditional IOS
that I know inside-out. But I do know my basics, so switching product is
not an issue, really.

When I look at Juniper I quickly find this:

https://www.juniper.net/us/en/products-services/routing/mx-series/datasheets/1000597.page

And here - just like Cisco - they feature all sorts of fancy numbers that are
all completely irrelevant to us. The smallest platform in that table features
four times the peak bandwidth we *could* use with our 5x 1G/s connections,
which we are currently utilizing at less than 500 M/s in total ...

Yet the only numbers I am really interested in are:

	How many routes will each of these systems hold in the data plane?
	And how many full-feed BGP peers can it handle in the control plane?

And these are not in this effing table!

This is frustrating …

Kind regards,
Patrick
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