Router for 4 10gig point to point internet circuits.

[sandeepsingh3200]

I am installing (4) 10gig points to point internet circuits 2 from Comcast and 2 from lumen. Does anyone have recommendations what type of a router I should be using? I would like to be fully redundant with all 4 circuits online at the same time.

[M02@rt37 · Accepted solution]

Hello @sandeepsingh3200 

Take a look to C8500 series or ASR9000 series.

The first is perfect for medium-to-large enterprises and can supports multiple 10G int. and high BGP scalability. Cisco ASR 9000 series (e.g., ASR 9902) is more suited for large-scale deployments.

If you prefer a highly redundant setup, consider two routers in a dual-homed configuration, with each router handling one circuit from each provider. This way, you have failover at both the ISP and hardware levels. Also, implementing BGP with Local_Pref, AS_path prepending, or conditional advertisements will allow better traffic distribution and failover handling between the circuits...