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

[adamv0025 at netconsultings.com]

> From: Saku Ytti <saku at ytti.fi>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 10:07 AM
> 
> On Tue, 29 Oct 2019 at 11:25, <adamv0025 at netconsultings.com> wrote:
> 
> > To the OP's question,
> > Since you don't need throughput maybe vMX/cRDP or vXR 9000 with just
> > couple of gig of licenses would be an option?
> > That way you'll get all the internet proven BGP stack offered by the
> > big boxes for fraction of the price tailored to your BW needs.
> > But yes there's the who manages the server part unfortunately...
> 
> I'm my experience, in most network outfits the OPEX for compute infra will
> eat alive the CAPEX delta of real routers. So you get inferior performance,
> you eat compute resources and you pay more. As a very large generalisation,
> I think these solutions are better for compute shop doing networking than
> network shop doing compute.
> 
> XEON is very expensive NPU.
> 
Sure there's a BW rate above which NPU clearly wins,
But for low BW cases like the on in OP's case it's a no brainer even with massive server (total overkill for 10G) the 10G virtual is 8 times cheaper than the cheapest HW option.
I'm being vague on purpose here cause I think the list prices are under NDA.

adam