BGP Growth projections

Sun Jul 12 20:20:33 UTC 2009

Give Vyatta on a decent x86 server a try.

http://www.vyatta.com/downloads/appbrief/Vyatta_app_BGP.pdf

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Radabaugh [mailto:mark at amplex.net] 
Sent: Friday, July 10, 2009 9:42 AM
To: nanog list
Subject: BGP Growth projections

I'm looking for new core routers for a small ISP and having a hard time 
finding something appropriate and reasonably priced.   We don't have 
huge traffic levels (<1Gb) and are mostly running Ethernet interfaces to

upstreams rather than legacy  interfaces (when did OC3 become legacy?).

Lot's of choices for routers that can handle the existing BGP tables - 
but not so much in small platforms (1-10Gb traffic)  if you assume that 
IPv6 is going to explode the routing table in the next 5 years.    The 
manufacturers still seem to think low traffic routers don't need much 
memory or CPU. 

What projections are you using regarding the default free zone over the 
next 5 years when picking new hardware?  

-- 

Mark Radabaugh
Amplex
419.837.5015 x21
mark at amplex.net

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