Cisco Router best for full BGP on a sub 5K bidget 7500 7200 or other vendor ?

Wed Apr 28 08:13:44 UTC 2004

7206 is one of the _BEST_ Cisco routers, if we compare all parameters
((including numbert of bugs and simplicity).

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs at seastrom.com>
To: "Alexander Hagen" <alexander at etheric.net>
Cc: <charlie at nextweb.net>; "'Alexei Roudnev'" <alex at relcom.net>; "'Mikael
Abrahamsson'" <swmike at swm.pp.se>; "'Tom (UnitedLayer)'"
<tom at unitedlayer.com>; <nanog at merit.edu>; <rs at seastrom.com>
Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 4:44 AM
Subject: Re: Cisco Router best for full BGP on a sub 5K bidget 7500 7200 or
other vendor ?

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> "Alexander Hagen" <alexander at etheric.net> writes:
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> > What about a 7505 w/ RSP4/256 and 2 VIP 2-50/128s with 4 PA-FE-TXs.
> >
> > For additional port density a 3550 ?
> >
> > What is better about the 7206 VXR ?
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> Fewer software bugs, simpler platform, half the vertical space in the
> rack, redundant power supplies, built-in faste on the IO controller
> (if you get that kind).
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>                                         ---Rob
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