[j-nsp] juniper router reccomendations

[Tore Anderson]

* Mike <mike+jnsp at willitsonline.com>

>      I am a network operator and have been firmly in the cisco camp
> for many years but the price for 10g ports simply seems too
> unreasonably high across the whole product line and I'm wondering if
> Juniper might be a better solution for me.
> 
>      In fact, have a need for a new edge router today and the job
> would simply be full bgp tables taken on a 10g port, filtering/rate
> limiting DDoS type traffic (for us, inbound dns > 15mbps = attack,
> for example) and then forwarding the remainder to a 1Gbps uplink
> behind the router. How much of a juniper box do I need to accomplish
> that and what models/licenses would I need to accomplish this?

Hi Mike,

Ask yourself if you really, *really*, need those full BGP tables in your
FIB. If you can do without them and install a default instead, you'll
find a plethora of low-cost devices that'll do the job. You could even
pick up a second-hand EX4200 with 2x10GE for US$500 or so, it'll manage.

Note that you could still receive the full tables from your upstream
provider and keep them in your RIB for your amusement. It's the need to
install all of them to the FIB that's going to cost you dearly.

Tore