Tuesday, July 10, 2018

Inexpensive data center edge router options

I'm with a small company. We have just 2 racks of servers in a colo data center serving our production traffic, which averages around 100Mbps during our peak business hours. We're doing BGP but only receiving default routes.

We are looking to remove the "edge router" function from our firewalls and have dedicated devices for that purpose. We need to have gigabit ports and be able to realistically handle 3-4x growth in traffic.

What options are out there on the very low end of the price spectrum?

I know of and have used Mikrotiks so that may be an option. We are using Fortigates in other places, but I'd rather have a device whose primary job isn't a NGFW.



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