Cisco Router best for full BGP on a sub 5K bidget 7500 7200 or other vendor ?
I have been looking for a sub 5K router on the used market to support around 30-50 megs peak traffic. I have found the 7507/7513 but these things appear to have been manufactured in 1995 ! Then there is the 7206 and the 7206 VXR - I guess the 7206 itself is just as old as the 7507 and 7513 and the same price at the least - perhaps because of its form factor. The 7206 VXR makes me feel a little better - as it was manufactured in 1999? We are looking at a pure Ethernet environment - but with the desire to support a lot of value added services - such as IPSEC, VoIP, traffic accounting. Cisco's have traditionally been good at PRI and T-1 and T-3 type interfaces - which we don't really need -which leads me to think Foundry might be an option. Juniper appears to be at least 7,000.00 - and I am worried about support - based on other articles I have seen. So the question is would a layer 3 switch be a good idea with a lot of memory - for example the Cat 6509 ? Perhaps foundry BigIron with Jetware ? Please give me your thoughts - it is hard to believe that the 7507 and 7513 are my best options.... Alexander Hagen Etheric Networks Incorporated, A California Corporation 527 Sixth Street No 371261 Montara CA 94037 Main Line: (650)-728-3375 Direct Line: (650) 728-3086 Cell: (650) 740-0650 (Does not work at our office in Montara) Home: (Emgcy or weekends) 650-728-5820 fax: (650) 240-1750 http://www.etheric.net
On 7-feb-04, at 11:48, Alexander Hagen wrote:
I have been looking for a sub 5K router on the used market to support around 30-50 megs peak traffic.
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We are looking at a pure Ethernet environment - but with the desire to support a lot of value added services - such as IPSEC, VoIP, traffic accounting.
I would go for the 7200 VXR, if the price works. The 7200 has a nice simple architecture and is still fairly current, unlike the 7500. The fact that everything is done in software saves big time on complexity and power usage. A multilayer switch gives you much more bang and ports for your buck but you pay for that in complexity: harder to configure and monitor (this is especially bad for Cisco layer 3 switches, Foundry, Extreme and Riverstone are better in this regard), trouble because certain features or combinations thereof aren't supported in hardware and you often get into trouble with agressive worm scanning or denial of service attacks. A Juniper gives you the same bang (but not the same number of ports) for a few more bucks but will hold up much better under adverse circumstances. As the saying goes: fast, cheap, good: pick any two. A 7200 is cheap and good, L3 switches are fast and cheap and a Juniper is fast and good.
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