[j-nsp] router for IX

[Matthias Gelbhardt]

I think we will start small and will use a J6350. Then when it will be  
needed we will upgrade to the advanced license.

We will just have a small throughput in the beginning, so a M7i or  
greater would not be needed in the first place.

Matthias

Am 20.08.2008 um 08:37 schrieb Mark Tinka:

> On Tuesday 19 August 2008 16:41:24 Matthias Gelbhardt wrote:
>
>> Unfortunatly on the other datasheets of the other routers
>> we do not see any information about the maximum number of
>> peers. Is anyone here who can me give an information? I
>> think the next smaller router would be the M7i.
>
> I think the number of BGP sessions you can have is
> subjective, and depends a lot on the environment.
>
> I would imagine having more than 90 BGP session if you were
> receiving no more than a couple of routes from each of the
> peers.
>
> At my previous employer, we once had a C box that carried 99
> sessions, most were a couple of hundred to a few thousand
> routes, with two or three carrying full feeds - and this
> was with a processor that I can say is not as powerful as
> the Intel ones running on the J-series today, both being
> software platforms and all.
>
> The M7i would still handle BGP in software, since that's a
> control plane feature.
>
> So it comes down to how many routes you'll be receiving from
> each of your peers, how optimized your BGP configuration
> will be, how late the code you'll be running is and how
> (un)stable those peers are likely to get.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark.