On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us> wrote:
The problem I'm facing is that if I want something from Cisco that can do at least line-rate T3, I'm looking at least $20k per router. I don't have a uber-budget, so for me, that's kind of painful when I start to need more than one plus spare parts. But, I have a high level of confidence that I can put cards in, some memory, power it up, configure it and I'm good to go.
it's interesting that no one has mentioned the Nokia platform in this discussion... they have a pc-based rackable server platform (in the ip530/ip560 sized box) which would do T3 interfaces (from nokia I believe even). Looking at the nokia website now I don't see WAN capabilities below the 1220 though :( so you'd have to be in for that at least. -Chris