Router choice for medium size hosting provider
Hi everyone, I'm looking for a new router to connect our data center to our tier 1 ISP via a 50mbps fibre link. Does anyone have any advice about what level of Cisco router would be required to saturate this link? We're looking at the 2811 but I can't get any real world data about whether it can route packets at 50mbps - this seems doubtful although unclear from the information on the Cisco data sheets. (I'm aware that a cheap PC running Linux could provide similar throughput to a $20000 Cisco router but for a variety of reasons I'm reluctant to follow this path). Thanks, Alex
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Alex Campbell wrote: | | Hi everyone, | | I'm looking for a new router to connect our data center to our tier | 1 ISP via a 50mbps fibre link. Does anyone have any advice about | what level of Cisco router would be required to saturate this link? | | | We're looking at the 2811 but I can't get any real world data about | whether it can route packets at 50mbps - this seems doubtful | although unclear from the information on the Cisco data sheets. | | (I'm aware that a cheap PC running Linux could provide similar | throughput to a $20000 Cisco router but for a variety of reasons | I'm reluctant to follow this path). | | Thanks, | | Alex | Do you need BGP? That's going to make a big difference in what you want to use. An idea on the number/type of interfaces you need would be helpful as well. Mark Radabaugh -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCVHtNg0PQSWMG2wsRArOOAKCWwM70hEx2dxGDBU/yWK1Jn+4AnACdFGpD 7fJ9wZFncJ2Mq4OJPDyqWPQ= =TQfK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
> Do you need BGP? That's going to make a big difference in what you > want to use. An idea on the number/type of interfaces you need would > be helpful as well. A 2811 will do BGP just fine... 760mb of RAM and plenty of CPU. In terms of interfaces, it can nominally take four GigE and eighteen 100Base-T interfaces, though I believe it's only rated for 4.8gbps total throughput. How real that number actually is I don't guess we'll know until someone tries it in the lab. I haven't had time yet. -Bill
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