On Fri, Dec 27, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Jon Sands <fohdeesha@gmail.com> wrote:
On Dec 27, 2013 10:08 AM, "Baldur Norddahl" <baldur.norddahl@gmail.com> wrote:
We are an upstart and just buying the fancy Juniper switch times two would burn half of my seed capital.
Then you didn't ask for nearly enough capital.
Another told Nick Cameo that if he can afford a 10G link, he can afford Juniper. You could not be more wrong. The 10G uplink goes for $0 in initial fee and less than $4k / month with unlimited traffic. The Juniper gear is $100k up front for two routers able to handle the 10G links. What I get from you guys is that in your opinion it is not possible to set up a small ISP without spending a ton on Juniper or Cisco. I am not buying that. Even if I did not have a clear limit on my capital, I would be looking at avoiding paying that kind of money, because in the end the money comes out of my own pocket. Everybody have critical services running on servers. DHCP, DNS, Radius and so on are all on servers and you will be down if these services are down. What is with the knee jerk reaction for suggesting that the BGP daemon could also be run on a server? There seems to be many advantages of doing it this way, and not all of them are related to cost. Regards, Baldur