Re: Router choice.

We've been running a Catalyst 6509 with dual-redundant SUP720-3BXL for 
18 months now. The thing just works.

I shopped several other devices as well.

You might also take a look at the Brocade NetIron XMR. You can get one 
brand new for < $40K with redundant everything. They are sweet boxes. 
The only reason we didn't go with one of these is that we needed an 
obscure feature the 6509 had and the XMR didn't (involving q-in-q 
ethernet frames). For standard internet and mpls routing, the XMR is a 
fantastic box.

You might also look at the Brocade NetIron CER. $14K gets you a sweet 
box. I don't think it has enough RAM for a full BGP table but you're not 
doing that now, anyway..

These are assuming you only need gigabit ethernet ports. The XMR 
supports OC12 and OC48 ports, the CER is strictly an ethernet box.

I used Juniper in the lab too. They have some neat features but true L3 
Ethernet switches with big routing tables blow Juniper away for price 
per port.




On 04/28/2010 05:24 PM, Keith wrote:
> We are buying a new router. Its replacing a 7206 with an NPE-G1.
>
> There are 3 OC3's delivered on a GigE pipe. We will be adding another
> OC3 in the next couple of months for a total of 4. We take just a
> default route from our upstream with BGP. We would like to take a full
> view again. We used to but the table got bigger than the RAM in the 7206
> and we went to taking just default instead.
>
> We have gone out to Cisco and Juniper and gotten quotes on an MX240 and
> 2 - 1002 Cisco boxes. Functionally and port density they are about the
> same, but I think the MX240 has more ports in the quote. We are getting 2
> 1002's for redundency, but the 240 has it all in one chassis.
>
> Pricing is close. Our upstream core is Juniper too.
>
> Having only ever used an M10 for about a month about 5 yrs ago in
> our lab environment (we got a loaner) I'm a greenhorn with Juniper.
> I liked it, but it was out of our range at the time.
>
> With all things sort of being equal, I'd like some real world input on
> these two routers and maybe a bit of a real world comparison.
>
> Thanks,
> Keith
>
>    

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