Best band for your buck router and switch (gigabit)

[symack at gmail.com (Nick Cameo)]

On 11/15/13, Eric Tykwinski <eric-list at 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.