Line rate gigabit router/switch options

Tue Jul 22 01:25:24 UTC 2008

I think a J series would be the way to go as well. Even the 4350  
claims 1Gbps+ forwarding.

To give you an idea of cost, a J4350 will list about $5k J6350 will  
list about $10.5k. The 8-port GigE PIMs list at $1800 per, 16-port  
GigE PIM (dual height) at $3000. Of course, those are list prices...

M

On Jul 17, 2008, at 3:02 PM, Paul Kelly :: Blacknight wrote:

> Hi Matthew,
>
> The Juniper J6350 boxes are both cost effective and are claimed to  
> do line 2Gbit/s of IMIX traffic I think.
>
> We've several deployed between multitple DCs in Dublin and a load of  
> J4350 at different layers. Stick 2GB of ram into each one and  
> they'll go a long way.
>
> Paul
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Matthew Huff [mailto:mhuff at ox.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 8:21 PM
>> To: 'nanog at nanog.org'
>> Subject: Line rate gigabit router/switch options
>>
>> We have a pair of cisco 7204VXR routers connecting to STFI
>> receiving market data. At peak periods micro-bursts of
>> unicast and multicast data overrun the Ethernet fifo buffer
>> due to the 7200 being a cpu based router. A 7600 router would
>> be a good replacement but it isn't cost effective. We need
>> BGP, rip, pim multicast and netflow. Since the connections
>> are all metro Ethernet, Cisco has suggested looking at the
>> 3750 switch platform that does BGP since all of the packets
>> are hardware switched, but it doesn't due L3 netflow. I've
>> been doing cisco for too long and was wondering what the cost
>> effective options are with other vendors or even other
>> possible cisco solutions.
>>
>>
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