Core Network Design

Jawaid Bazyar <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.operators.internet-access
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Hi,

I am redesigning our core network, and wanted to query your collective 
wisdom and experience.

I need to solve the following issues:
    IP DSCP QoS
    Scalability from gigabit to 10-gigabit in the future
    redundancy, including fast handling of component failure

My initial thoughts are to use a pair of L3 switches at the core, each 
with a full BGP routing table, so that outbound packets go directly to 
the correct one of multiple Internet edge routers.

However, in my experience, it takes BGP a long time now to converge with 
220,000 routes in the table, which provides wacky behavior in the meantime.

Any thoughts on a fault-tolerant architecture with fast failover 
characteristics?

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