Re: The Making of a Router

On Thu, 26 Dec 2013 11:33:13 -0500, Nick Cameo said:

Hello Everyone,

We are looking to put together a 2u server with a few PCIe 3 x8 (recommendations appreciated). The router will take a voip transcoding line card, and will act as an edge router for a telecom company.

Two things you want to do: 1) Split this into multiple boxes if you can. That makes maintaining one component a lot easier, especially when you get to point 2, which is... 2) Redundancy/failover. Sure, it may be more expensive, but the first time your HA failover changes a 2AM "Holy Crap" into an "Oh, bother" it will be worth the price of admission....