We at SOX (Serbian Open eXchange www.sox.rs) use a combination of Extreme Networks Summit X650 (24x10G), and CISCO 4948E-E (4x10G+48xGEth), and recently added Vyatta with 2xIntel 82599ES dual 10G NIC, built on HPDL180G6 with 2xE5620 Xeon, and for route servers we use 2 additional HP servers running Quagga. Both Extreme, CISCO, and Vyatta could speak BGP, and do the routing, but we prefer CISCO to do the routing, as well as aggregation of GEth customers, VLAN translation etc. Vyatta works like a charm, but in very limited rule, routing what CISCO could not handle due to limitation in number of prefixes. Routing in Extreme is very expensive due to high price of Core license which is required for routing features. Best Zoran Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2014 11:53:14 -1000 From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> To: Nitzan Tzelniker <nitzan.tzelniker@gmail.com> Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org> Subject: Re: 10gbps peering subscriber switch recommendation Message-ID: <m2a9f8g4l1.wl%randy@psg.com <mailto:m2a9f8g4l1.wl%25randy@psg.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

A little bit overkill in term of number of ports but you can consider

the new Trident 2 switches Juniper EX-5100, Cisco Nexus 3100 .....

They have unified TCAM that can store 128K v4 routes

the nice thing about buying bgp devices that can not hold a full table is that you can expense them in the year of purchase as opposed to amortizing them over 5 years or so. randy