[c-nsp] Recommendation for Cisco router with Full BGP Route

[Shawn L]

And the 9901 has been moved to (or very soon will be) end-of-sale.  Now
they want you to use the 9902.  Sigh

On Tue, Mar 4, 2025 at 10:29 AM Gert Doering via cisco-nsp <
cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Mar 04, 2025 at 10:40:08PM +0800, Pengembara T. via cisco-nsp
> wrote:
> > Our concern more toward CPU utilization when handling bgp. Cpu will
> > constantly high, long before the throughput hit 10G.
>
> On proper routers, packets forwarded will not be a concern to the CPU :-)
>
> With "5x 10Gbps", an ASR9001 would be a perfect match, but that's a
> platform Cisco no longer wants to sell.  The successors (ASR9901 etc)
> are much bigger (100G ports) and just so expensive.
>
> So maybe one of these Catalyst 8000 would indeed be an option, if you
> do not intend to connect to a big IXP.
>
> Or go Juniper and look for an MX204.
>
> gert
>
> --
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>  feed honest figures into a computer, honest figures come out. Never
> doubted
>  it myself till I met a computer with a sense of humor."
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> Mistress
>
> Gert Doering - Munich, Germany
> gert at greenie.muc.de
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