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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-NZ link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>As someone who has used VSR (Nokia) and VMX (Juniper) I’d suggest, good luck on your plan to use servers for this sort of routing. If you want a cheap router to handle full tables and a couple of 10G interfaces worth of throughput I’d suggest you would be a lot better off with Mikrotik’s latest hardware offering - <a href="https://mikrotik.com/product/ccr2004_1g_12s_2xs">https://mikrotik.com/product/ccr2004_1g_12s_2xs</a> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Just my 2c<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>>We're also looking at going the virtual router route where we put 2-3 servers in a HA cluster loaded up with 10Gb interfaces and running some sort of routing software. In case you didn't catch on, I'm fairly early in running this idea through the paces, although it seems like >this is a pretty common thing nowadays.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>