Router choice for medium size hosting provider

Thu Apr 7 00:14:06 UTC 2005

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Alex Campbell wrote:

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| Hi everyone,
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| I'm looking for a new router to connect our data center to our tier
| 1 ISP via a 50mbps fibre link.  Does anyone have any advice about
| what level of Cisco router would be required to saturate this link?
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| We're looking at the 2811 but I can't get any real world data about
| whether it can route packets at 50mbps - this seems doubtful
| although unclear from the information on the Cisco data sheets.
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| (I'm aware that a cheap PC running Linux could provide similar
| throughput to a $20000 Cisco router but for a variety of reasons
| I'm reluctant to follow this path).
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| Thanks,
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| Alex
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Do  you need BGP?  That's going to make a big difference in what you
want to use.   An idea on the number/type of interfaces you need would
be helpful as well.

Mark Radabaugh
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