[j-nsp] router recommendation

[Chris Evans]

Unless you are dead set on juniper the Cisco asr1k is an awesome platform
for lower cost and more capabilities of you need it.
On Oct 14, 2010 8:22 PM, "Richard Zheng" <rzheng at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Mehmet Akcin <mehmet at icann.org> wrote:
>
>> On Oct 14, 2010, at 11:46 AM, "sthaug at nethelp.no" <sthaug at nethelp.no>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >> I'd like to have some recommendation of a router model. It is for a
>> small
>> >> ISP. There are 2 or 3 upstreams which feeds the whole Internet routing
>> >> table. Total about 20 peering sessions. The traffic is about 2-3G in
12
>> >> months. Right now we only care about Internet. But if it can scale to
>> >> support layer 2 and/or layer 3 VPN services, that's a big plus.
>> >>
>> >> We have dealt with M20 about 4-5 years ago. I am looking at M7i or
M10i.
>> Not
>> >> sure if I am on the right path.
>> >
>> > You probably want the MX80, unless you *really* need other interface
>> > types than Ethernet. M7i/M10i are getting rather long in the tooth.
>>
>> Hi, i agree. MX series is way to go. You will need to spend some $$ but
my
>> last two years with MXs (previously m7i) they worth every penny.
>>
>> Happy to answer if you have more specific questions
>>
>
> I looked at MX80 before. Its 20x 10/100/1000 and 80G backplane is way more
> than what we need. M7i is also cheaper than MX80. I went through the
history
> of this list. M7i got pretty good review, except the hard drive issue in
> 2005. For what we need, M7i seems a better option.
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