RE: Switch with 10 Gig and GRE support in hardware.

[Matt Newsom <matt.newsom () RACKSPACE COM>]

Those are the two options I am looking at now. Unfortunately both of those require the chassis tax and a decent amount 
of real estate and power. It looks like that is what I am going to be stuck with though because I can't seem to find 
anyone that has small 1-2U solution that can do the full shake and bake.


-----Original Message-----
From: Joel Jaeggli [mailto:joelja () bogus com] 
Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2011 7:51 PM
To: Mikael Abrahamsson
Cc: nanog () nanog org
Subject: Re: Switch with 10 Gig and GRE support in hardware.

On 2/19/11 5:46 PM, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> On 2/19/11 5:31 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> > On Fri, 18 Feb 2011, Matt Newsom wrote:
> >
> > >                I am looking for a switch with a minimum of 12 X 10GE
> > > ports on it, that can has routing protocol support and can do GRE in
> > > hardware. Does anyone have a suggestion that might fit. Keep in mind I
> > > am looking for something in the 1-2U range and not a chassis.
>
> juniper mx80 can get 12x10GB using 2x 4x10Gb mics mx platform does gre
> in hardware.

appologies it appears only the 2 x 10Gbe mic is supported, so that's 8...

> > I'd imagine there is no such beast right now. Only one that comes to
> > mind is the 6500/7600 but there is no fixed-configuration small box that
> > fits your port needs, you need a 7604 to get that amount of ports.




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