Re: Router choice.

I don't run at the bandwidth levels you guys do so I don't know if this 
helps or not.  Also I have no idea what the costs of a pci oc3 adapter would 
be so your prices will clearly be different...

I'm running Mikrotik for my routers.  www.mikrotik.com  They have hardware 
solutions available but I buy Dell servers to put them on.

My latest will be a quad core 2. something ghz processor, 8 gigs of ram and 
4 gigE ethernet ports.  I picked up a new monitor etc. too all for a shade 
over $1,600.

The solid state sata disk drive AND the router OS that'll run on the box 
will cost under $200.  I'll pay a consultant http://www.butchevans.com/ a 
few hundred more to program and test it.  We'll be (finally) setting up with 
our own IP space and bgp.

I dropped Cisco in favor of MT and have been REALLY happy with the product. 
It's more powerful than the Cisco gear was (does a LOT more things) and has 
been just as reliable.  I think I'm going on 6 or 7 years with MT now.

I've also got a router from www.imagestream.com.  Great company, great 
product.  They don't have a nice GUI like MT does so they require a lot more 
consulting/higher costs for my operation.  I'm a real point and click kind 
of guy but the folks I know that can handle an ssh interface love the 
imagestream gear they use.

Hope that helps Kieth,
marlon

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Keith" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 4:24 PM
Subject: Router choice.


>
> 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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