Arista Layer3

Fri Dec 1 04:56:29 UTC 2017

Jared,

Which Arista box do you use for FTTH features? Whats the cost like as FTTH
boxes are usually inexpensive, and Arista is not know to be inexpensive
compared to something like Calix or Adtran.

On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 1:32 PM, Jared Mauch <jared at puck.nether.net> wrote:

>
>
> > On Nov 30, 2017, at 2:17 PM, Ken Chase <math at sizone.org> wrote:
> >
> > Back to this discussion! :) Arista as a viable full-table PE router. Was
> hoping
> > for better experience reports since last mention.
> >
> > To make the Q bit more general, are there any PE routers yet that can
> handle 3-8
> > full feeds and use an amp and 1U or so instead of 5 and 4U? Or we're ito
> whitebox/
> > open routers still for that (bird/openbgp?) or microtiks?
>
> The 7280 is likely what you’re looking at.  Lots of folks also use
> MikroTik as well if
> the traffic is in the 1G range or so.
>
> I for one use Arista for Layer3 for FTTH purposes as it gives me good
> software/hardware
> support for my features.
>
> - Jared