Joel Snyder wrote:
Also I'd love to hear recommendatios for "budget" 10GE routers. The "budget" router would be used to hook up client networks through one 10GE interface and connect to different transit providers through two 10GE interfaces.
If you don't need BGP-ish power, David Newman just published his test of 10GigE switches today in Network World. He was focusing mostly on switching in the enterprise, but he has a variety of other performance metrics and results which may be helpful:
http://www.networkworld.com/reviews/2008/032408-switch-test.html?t51hb
The author's specifications eliminated Cisco's 4900M from the competition. That not unexpected though since it was a evaluation of access switches w/ 10G uplinks. The 4900M has 8 on-board 10G interfaces and expansion modules that can carry 8 more (not oversubscribed) or 16 (oversubscribed). It has has GigE support via TwinGig modules in the expansion module bays. It also has a 320Gbps backplane and can handle up to 200k v4 routes. It's an impressive little switch if you need 10G aggregation. It can't handle a full table of course but it still has a lot of use. No MPLS options. It's based on the 4500's Sup 6-E. http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps9310/index.html The base unit starts at $16k. Justin