On Thursday, February 13, 2014 12:28:47 AM Vlade Ristevski wrote:
My Cisco SE brought up an interesting alternative. This summer we're replacing our 6513 Sup720 with a pair of 6807 with redundant Sup 2Ts. It is where all our internal Fiber terminates and where internal routing happens. He said we can add extra memory and terminate our BGP sessions here and use that for our Internet connections. After thinking it over, I'd still rather have dedicated routers for our Internet access but I'm curious what you guys think about this suggestion.
If you have the budget, run dedicated peering/upstream routers. Hierarchical separation of functions at the hardware level provides lots of flexibility in other areas as your network grows. If cash is not a constraint, go for it, I'd say. Mark.