I'd stick with what you know unless you plan to terminate hundreds of thousands of things in which case cisco isn't a great choice. They two platforms are similar but 7301 is relatively new. Anything new from cisco I recommend to avoid for atleast a year so that you aren't an alpha tester.
-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Ben Butler Sent: 18 November 2005 17:20 To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Cisco 7200 + NPE-G1 / 7301
Hi,
Anyone got any comments about how good or otherwise the Cisco 7200 + NPE-G1 or 7301, both with 1GB of RAM, is as a eBGP router + L2TP terminator for DSL subs, in terms of scalability for bandwidth through put & the number of VPDN sessions it can terminate before it dies. Are the two solutions effectively the same box or are there more technical differences beyond the obvious number of slots.
Without wanting to start one of those sorts of threads is it time to look at something else, i.e. Juniper, for cost / performance, or should I stick with the heard and what I know in Cisco.
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