Hi I was hoping for some advise on some options for enterprise routers. I have a very good understanding on the Cisco ISR and ASR ranges and Juniper SRX lines and using those as routers. Could anyone share some experience with any other brands please? As far as I'm aware for enterprise options I don't think there are many dedicated cost effective enterprise routers that can be used at scale. I'm Looking to achieve around 1Gbps throughput at 1500B packets around 1500 prefixes in the routing table.
With Cisco you could use ISR4431's or some of the lower models with boost licenses but considering the length of time the ISR4000 series has been around now I am guessing an End of Sale announcement is imminent and cost against performance I think is on the high side with limited interfaces with expensive NIMs and SM-X's for additional interfaces comparing these against higher end models.
I'm also not really aware of any white box routers, could anyone point me in the direction of any distributions? I guess it's feasible to use a Linux box and use FRR but I wanted to see if there was anything dedicated. I have seen many things about Whitebox switches but nothing really relating to routers.
Another option I am going to look in to is the potential to use switches to see if there is a viable option that could be used in place of a router and what compromises would be made by doing so I.E IPSec VPN not an option.
Thanks
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