Extreme BlackDiamond

Mon Oct 13 14:52:07 UTC 2003

Matt,

Yes we are that is correct.
We will be offering COLO and dedicated hosting and need some serious
horse-power.

Right now, we are set on this..,.

ROUTER : 2 * Juniper M40's, these will be connected from day one to
darkfibre.

DISTRID : 2 * Extreme BlackDiamonds with redundant routing engines. (highly
considering the BigIrons)

AGGREG : These would be a mix of Extreme Alpines/BigIron4000 - 8000/Summit
48i's depending on whether we are offering colo, ded-hosting, managed
services etc...

ACCESS : Extreme Summit 24e3 or Foundry series.

Please don't hesitate to contact us if you have any more questions. 

Best Regards, 
Shazad
eServers - driving the "e" into your business.

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Sweet [mailto:msweet at deadnet.net] 
Sent: 13 October 2003 15:43
To: Shazad - eServers
Subject: RE: Extreme BlackDiamond

Shazad,

    Are you going to do colocation or something like metro-area ethernet
access services to office / colo buildings? The reason I am asking this is
a company called Yipes (yipes.com) uses a similiar setup: Black Diamond
for high-density switching and Juniper M20/40s for the routing services.
I cannot say anything for the Black Diamond, except Yipes uses them. I am
using Alpine 3808s and Summit 48sis, along with Juniper M10 routers at my
datacenter. The Alpine switching have alot of nice features on them. If
you are doing dedicated server/colocation, I would assume you need a
higher density than I am needing.

Anyways, just wanted to put my $.02 in.

Matt