<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I’ve had BGP from comcast business in River North before, not sure what their minimum bandwidth is for that. Tunnels may be simplest at that bandwidth level.<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 3, 2019, at 12:52 PM, Florian Brandstetter via NANOG <<a href="mailto:nanog@nanog.org" class="">nanog@nanog.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Might be worth to consider running a software router on that scale with perhaps some cheap quad-port GbE PCIe NICs. BIRD would be the BGP daemon to go, or FRRouting if you want an integrated shell. Hardware routers for 100 Mbit egress seem a bit overpowered, however, as scaleable you want to go, some Ubiquiti routers might be a cheap option.</div><br class=""><div class="">As for transit, have you considered a redundant tunnel-based solution instead? You can run that transparently on top of your RCN connection, with negligible costs for your commit and no additional connection fees.</div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote_attribution">On Sep. 3 2019, at 6:17 pm, ADNS NetBSD List Subscriber <<a href="mailto:nanog2@adns.net" class="">nanog2@adns.net</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><font style="font-size:12pt" class=""><font style="font-family:Calibri" class="">I have a need for a BGP enabled connection in the River North section of Chicago. We have a small number of IP blocks that we want to use. Currently, we have some equipment at 350 E. Cermak (Steadfast Networks) and are looking at downsizing and bringing stuff</font></font></div><div class=""><font style="font-size:12pt" class=""><font style="font-family:Calibri" class="">in-house. Our bandwidth requirements are miniscule (10MB/Sec is fine).</font></font></div><div class=""><font style="font-size:12pt" class=""><font style="font-family:Calibri" class=""> </font></font></div><div class=""><font style="font-size:12pt" class=""><font style="font-family:Calibri" class="">I know RCN offers business cable-modem service but probably not BGP.</font></font></div><div class=""><font style="font-size:12pt" class=""><font style="font-family:Calibri" class=""> </font></font></div><div class=""><font style="font-size:12pt" class=""><font style="font-family:Calibri" class="">Also, we’d like to ditch our 3640 router in favor of a smaller “desktop” size router, but none of them seem to do BGP (not surprising). Any recommendations on hardware would be welcome as well</font></font></div></div></div></div></blockquote><img class="mailspring-open" alt="Sent from Mailspring" width="0" height="0" style="border:0; width:0; height:0;" src="https://link.getmailspring.com/open/03A50E56-DE08-4591-A575-3DE2B3C2ACA4@getmailspring.com?me=06695157&recipient=bmFub2dAbmFub2cub3Jn"></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>