Re: Best band for your buck router and switch (gigabit)
On 11/15/13, Eric Tykwinski <eric-list@truenet.com> wrote:
Nick,
It really depends on your deployment. If you are looking at Cisco and doing BGP, I wouldn't go with a 3800 series. Memory constraints will kill you, especially in dual stack.
If I was looking for an all in one on the cisco side of things, I'd look at a Catalyst 6500 series. Battle tested with redundant power, supps, etc...
If you are looking for cheap and don't mind learning a new OS. MikroTik: http://www.mikrotik.com/ Well used in SE Asia, and while I wouldn't use them for mission critical mainly due to lack of a good service contract, they do hold their own.
Sincerely,
Eric Tykwinski TrueNet, Inc. P: 610-429-8300 F: 610-429-3222
Hello Eric, Thank you so much for your response. The 6500 is what I was trained on however, for this case we cannot afford the rackspace. We're building highly efficient networks using mainly virtual machines and fiberchannel backbone. I did however overlook the 1Gig limit of the 38/3900s.... So basically build our own linux router using a stripped down version of gentoo? N.
For that sort of use case one of the new SDN offerings might work for you? If not, mikrotik has any roll your own based on gentoo router beat --srs On Saturday, November 16, 2013, Nick Cameo wrote:
Thank you so much for your response. The 6500 is what I was trained on however, for this case we cannot afford the rackspace. We're building highly efficient networks using mainly virtual machines and fiberchannel backbone. I did however overlook the 1Gig limit of the 38/3900s....
So basically build our own linux router using a stripped down version of gentoo?
-- --srs (iPad)
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