[f-nsp] BGP Core GigE reccomendation

[Gillian Canty-Ross]

Hi Kevin:

I can't help you with the technical stuff.  I can, however, tell you  
that Foundry will put pre-owned gear under software maintenance only  
(bronze contract, I believe).   But the hardware is so cheap these  
days, it hardly makes a difference.

I may have a copy of a BigIron user's manual (it's pretty huge) that  
I can put on CD, if you want it.

-Gilli
On Sep 14, 2007, at 4:01 PM, W. Kevin Hunt wrote:

> I’m from the Cisco world so forgive me if the questions are a bit  
> juvenile...
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> We are picking up a new egress provider delivered via GigE.
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> We’ll be running an average of 250 megs through it, with peaks in  
> the 500 meg range.
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> Anyone have any recommendations?  We just absorbed a company’s  
> assets and they have a FastIron 400 with the GMR4 JetCore blade and  
> a B4000 with the BXGMR-4 8 port Gig E blade.  The initial specs I  
> have been able to pull seem impressive, and I am not too happy with  
> having to put in the Sup 720BXL if I want a Cisco solution that  
> will handle expected internet route table growth for more 18 months  
> (sooner if you believe the doomsdayers).
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> I see many complaints about older Foundry code having issues with  
> BGP and OSPF, I assume these are now stable ?
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> How do either of these hold up under high pps ddos loads ?
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> What is Foundry’s stance on putting such gear under software  
> maintenance and support contract ?
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> I tried to read Foundry’s literature, but it appears one must have  
> a login to their web page to read such super secret documentation...
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