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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Software router state of the art
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Seth Mattinen <[email protected]> wrote: > The problem I'm facing is that if I want something from Cisco that can do at > least line-rate T3, I'm looking at least $20k per router. I don't have a > uber-budget, so for me, that's kind of painful when I start to need more > than one plus spare parts. But, I have a high level of confidence that I can > put cards in, some memory, power it up, configure it and I'm good to go. > it's interesting that no one has mentioned the Nokia platform in this discussion... they have a pc-based rackable server platform (in the ip530/ip560 sized box) which would do T3 interfaces (from nokia I believe even). Looking at the nokia website now I don't see WAN capabilities below the 1220 though :( so you'd have to be in for that at least. -Chris
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