I'd like to see more products using ISL, allowing them to act as virtual interfaces on a full blown router. Ie, provide lots of inexpensive interfaces but let routers handle the routing complexity.
Can anyone please relate their experiences using this router in an e-bgp environment (# of full views, # of peers, interoperability with cisco's, etc)?
Well, they don't have a high number of ports...mine is a single hssi, single fe, so you're only dealing with a few views at most. We've got a full eBGP view from uu.net on it, as well as an iBGP peer with our cisco taking our other connections. It handles it quite well...never seems to have broken a sweat CPU-wise that I can tell.
does xedia have all the bgp knobs such as communities, filtering, route-map like functions, and all?
-brett