Best band for your buck router and switch (gigabit)
Hello Everyone, We are in the market for a used integrated service router and switch to manage our network. A 24 port gigabit switch should suffice accompanied with an industry grade router. We like buying used (still under warranty) equipment as long as there is good feedback. Which make and models are you gents and ladies liking these days? Some Requirements for the router: IPSEC and VPN Enabled Transcoding capabilities using PVDM2 and NM-HDV2 We were considering: Cisco 3845 Cisco WS-C2960G-24TC-L But I thought I would get some insight on value, pricing, and scalability before making a recommendation. Kind Regards, Nick.
Not sure what your budge is but you might consider the ASR1k. Or the Juniper MX104. Mike On Nov 15, 2013, at 5:49 PM, Nick Cameo <symack@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Everyone,
We are in the market for a used integrated service router and switch to manage our network. A 24 port gigabit switch should suffice accompanied with an industry grade router. We like buying used (still under warranty) equipment as long as there is good feedback. Which make and models are you gents and ladies liking these days?
Some Requirements for the router:
IPSEC and VPN Enabled Transcoding capabilities using PVDM2 and NM-HDV2
We were considering:
Cisco 3845 Cisco WS-C2960G-24TC-L
But I thought I would get some insight on value, pricing, and scalability before making a recommendation.
Kind Regards,
Nick.
Mx80 Might work if you are looking at Expansion options for future it comes with Modular Cards or Tested Cisco 760x series might suffice as well. Other Options like Mikrotik as above stated might work but i myself never tested that brand though Rakesh On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Michael Smith <mksmith@mac.com> wrote:
Not sure what your budge is but you might consider the ASR1k. Or the Juniper MX104.
Mike
On Nov 15, 2013, at 5:49 PM, Nick Cameo <symack@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Everyone,
We are in the market for a used integrated service router and switch to manage our network. A 24 port gigabit switch should suffice accompanied with an industry grade router. We like buying used (still under warranty) equipment as long as there is good feedback. Which make and models are you gents and ladies liking these days?
Some Requirements for the router:
IPSEC and VPN Enabled Transcoding capabilities using PVDM2 and NM-HDV2
We were considering:
Cisco 3845 Cisco WS-C2960G-24TC-L
But I thought I would get some insight on value, pricing, and scalability before making a recommendation.
Kind Regards,
Nick.
If you're going to consider Mikrotik, I'd also highly recommend that you look into Vyatta (www.vyatta.com). They offer (well, or did last time I looked, they seem to be increasingly commercial every time I visit their site) fully supported software as well as software-on-vendor-hardware solutions, plus an open source "core" offering. I've never done BGP on them, but I've used them as edge routers/firewalls for smallish internal networks as well as IPSEC endpoints, and their performance on modern server-grade hardware (i.e. the type of stuff lying around in many shops) is mind-boggling. Post Script: I just went to vyatta.com, and apparently they've been acquired by Brocade. The former content of their web site is gone, and as far as I can tell from the Brocade site (http://www.brocade.com/products/all/network-functions-virtualization/index.p...) they *seem* to be calling the software solution the "Brocade Vyatta 5400 vRouter". I assume this means their range of supported hardware devices may be done for. Luckily I kept an archive of all of their wonderful anti-cisco ads... -Jason On 11/16/2013 04:45 AM, Rakesh M wrote:
Mx80 Might work if you are looking at Expansion options for future it comes with Modular Cards or Tested Cisco 760x series might suffice as well. Other Options like Mikrotik as above stated might work but i myself never tested that brand though
Rakesh
On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Michael Smith <mksmith@mac.com> wrote:
Not sure what your budge is but you might consider the ASR1k. Or the Juniper MX104.
Mike
On Nov 15, 2013, at 5:49 PM, Nick Cameo <symack@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Everyone,
We are in the market for a used integrated service router and switch to manage our network. A 24 port gigabit switch should suffice accompanied with an industry grade router. We like buying used (still under warranty) equipment as long as there is good feedback. Which make and models are you gents and ladies liking these days?
Some Requirements for the router:
IPSEC and VPN Enabled Transcoding capabilities using PVDM2 and NM-HDV2
We were considering:
Cisco 3845 Cisco WS-C2960G-24TC-L
But I thought I would get some insight on value, pricing, and scalability before making a recommendation.
Kind Regards,
Nick.
On 11/16/13, 9:15, Jason Antman wrote:
Post Script: I just went to vyatta.com, and apparently they've been acquired by Brocade. The former content of their web site is gone, and as far as I can tell from the Brocade site (http://www.brocade.com/products/all/network-functions-virtualization/index.p...) they *seem* to be calling the software solution the "Brocade Vyatta 5400 vRouter". I assume this means their range of supported hardware devices may be done for. Luckily I kept an archive of all of their wonderful anti-cisco ads...
vyatta.org is still around. ~Seth
Post Script: I just went to vyatta.com, and apparently they've been acquired by Brocade. The former content of their web site is gone, and as far as I can tell from the Brocade site (http://www.brocade.com/products/all/network-functions-virtualization/index.p...) they *seem* to be calling the software solution the "Brocade Vyatta 5400 vRouter". I assume this means their range of supported hardware devices may be done for. Luckily I kept an archive of all of their wonderful anti-cisco ads...
Too funny. This reminds me of an old experience I had when companies where acquired and we were left out in the cold..... I think on Monday, I will make the recommendation to purchase an IBM xServer 3250 M5 (comes 1 PCIe V3 x4 and x8), throw Quagga on there and call it a day. It will have everything we need except for transcoding? Oh wait! We can buy hardware transcoder line cards as well. The problem is there are only two slots, and one I bet is reserved for some raid controller or something like that... As for the switch, is the 2960G have a proven track record? Thanks for everyone's help :) Nick from Toronto.
"As for the switch, is the 2960G have a proven track record?" We've deployed a lot of these in normal access-switch roles and they've worked flawlessly. You should be able to pick some up for relatively cheap from resellers. They'd be even cheaper if you get them from ebay. On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Nick Cameo <symack@gmail.com> wrote:
Your feedback is greatly appreciated.
N.
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If anyone has one for sale that has not had it's ports beat to hell please let us know. We would be interested.
We get ours from Network Hardware Resellers. It's Smartnet-contractable, which is important for us, and was pretty cheap. Shoot me a message offlist if you want our sales rep's info. He might be able to help you out. On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Nick Cameo <symack@gmail.com> wrote:
If anyone has one for sale that has not had it's ports beat to hell please let us know. We would be interested.
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What about a Cisco cloud services router? These devices scale quite nicely. You can even use them for 60 days on a trial license. On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 6:50 PM, Mike Hale <eyeronic.design@gmail.com>wrote:
We get ours from Network Hardware Resellers. It's Smartnet-contractable, which is important for us, and was pretty cheap.
Shoot me a message offlist if you want our sales rep's info. He might be able to help you out.
On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Nick Cameo <symack@gmail.com> wrote:
If anyone has one for sale that has not had it's ports beat to hell please let us know. We would be interested.
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