BGP Router Recommendation

[davidloke]

Dear All,

I'm very new to this, hope to seek help. My organisation is a Service Provider and would like to setup a Multihome network to serve our customers. As the current user base is very small, we would like to buy a router that supports BGP so that we can scale up as demand increases. May i know which router should i go for?

Any recommendations appreciated.

Thank You!

[christianjkoch]

how many customers do you need to support on this router as of right now?

what services are going to be pushed off of this router? t1, t3, mpls, etc ?

[network.king]

Hi ,

For terminating customers who require to run BGP , you can go for a Cisco 7200 NPE-G1 with 512M DRAM, as its a quite stable platform supporting all the features.

In case if you require a Route-reflector for getting internet routes from multiple providers and giving it to your Edge router for giving it to ur customer , then you can go for Cisco 7301 router with 1GB DRAM

In case if you want ur Metro cloud to aggregate and give bgp over it , go for a Cisco 7600 router .

Hope it helps

regards

vanesh k

[davidloke]

Hi Christian,

We are a hosting company, we plan to have our own ASN so that we can do multihoming to support about 100 servers. May i know which range should i get?