Arista Layer3

Tue Mar 5 19:26:11 UTC 2019

Hey Dmitry,

> What do you think about Arista 7280SR (DCS-7280SR-48C6-M-R) as a BGP peering router with 3 x upstream with full route view in RIB (ipv4 + ipv6) and another IXP feed?
> Considering switching from ASR9001 which is doing perfect work but has no more ports left.
> The price is very competitive comparing to MX or ASR and this router-switch have 48x10Gig + 6x100GigE ports.

You should compare 7280SR against NCS5500 and PTX1k, not ASR and MX.
ANET is great company, with great people, but they are like 2 years
old in SP market and this is quite visible. It is impressive though
what they've done in so little time.

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