[j-nsp] Advice on a 100Gbps+ environment

[Dobbins, Roland]

On Jul 2, 2013, at 3:58 PM, Morgan McLean wrote:

> I don't know if they will be giving us lags, which means I'll be potentially running 10-15 BGP sessions per MX, which is a lot of routes.

I'm not a Juniper person, but the MXes aren't the recommended boxes for your peering/transit edge.

> They're running the RE-S-1800 quad core 16GB, but should I opt for partial or just default at that point?

No - you want full tables for analytics purposes, if nothing else, plus one suspects you'll be doing a fair amount of traffic engineering, if your anticipated volume actually comes to fruition.

> Its possible all of the links will be from the same provider.

Very Bad Idea.

Were I you, I'd look at engaging some organization or group of individuals who have experience with this sort of thing to get it all sorted. 

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