1GE L3 aggregation

Fri Jun 17 12:58:34 UTC 2016

What size FIB/RIB table does that Huawei have?

On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 5:10 AM, Harald F. Karlsen <elfkin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 16.06.2016 09:51, Saku Ytti wrote:
>
>> Hey,
>>
>> I've been bit poking around trying to find reasonable option for 1GE
>> L3 full BGP table aggregator. It seems vendors are mostly pushing
>> Satellite/Fusion for this application.
>>
>> I don't really like the added complexity and tight coupling
>> Satellite/Fusion forces me. I'd prefer standards based routing
>> redundancy to reduce impact of defects.
>>
>> ASR9001 and MX104 are not an options, due to control-plane scale. New
>> boxes in vendor pipeline are completely ignoring 1GE.
>>
>> I've casually talked with other people, and it seems I'm not really
>> alone here. My dream box would be 96xSFP + 2xQSFP28, with pretty much
>> full edge features (BGP, LDP, ISIS, +1M FIB, +5M RIB, per-interface
>> VLANs, ipfix or sflow, at least per-port QoS with shaper, martini
>> pseudowires).
>>
>>
> What about the Huawei NE20E-S2F/NE40E-M2F?
> 4 * SFP+ and 40 * SFP fixed ports and two PICs with either 4*SFP+ or
> 1*QSFP each. Decent FIB. Not really sure about the IPFIX/sflow thought.
> Pricing seems very aggresive on these devices as well.
>
> --
> Harald
>