Monday, November 13, 2017

Alternate to cisco L3 ?

Hey guys,

We are looking to replace a Cisco L3 switch that's working as a router for us.

Bgp, ospf and plenty of svi running of it along with bandwidth policy.

We are thinking of replacing it and my choice would be to get an asr1000 something with enough ram for the full bgp table and enough ports for 10/40g connectivity. Reason behind wanting to change it would be it's size, age and power consumption; in a way the device is also underutilized.

One way to go and it's very popular here, would be to go with a mikrotik device or Ros on an x86 and it does the job that a Cisco device can do and then some more.

I'd like to hear what else is out there and who is using it and how?

Cheers Niamul



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