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Re: The Making of a Router


From: Jared Mauch <jared () puck nether net>
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2013 10:59:21 -0600

Look at the ubnt edgemax devices

Jared Mauch

On Dec 26, 2013, at 10:46 AM, Faisal Imtiaz <faisal () snappytelecom net> wrote:

I am a believer of not having to re-invent the wheel...

Having said that.. have you looked at 'purpose built appliances'  e.g. 

http://www.lannerinc.com/
http://us.axiomtek.com/

If you are looking for a full router....
Consider such as these...
  http://www.linktechs.net/
  http://www.maxxwave.com/

and there are a few others but the concept is the same

Personally, I am not a believer in making a single device be the do all / end all of everything..
While one can do everything on a big server .. however breaking things out e.g. voip trans-coding and routing make 
maintenance, availability, and ability to create redundancy much more practical.


Regards 

Faisal Imtiaz
Snappy Internet & Telecom


----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Cameo" <symack () gmail com>
To: nanog () nanog org
Sent: Thursday, December 26, 2013 11:33:13 AM
Subject: The Making of a Router

Hello Everyone,

We are looking to put together a 2u server with a few PCIe 3 x8
(recommendations appreciated). The router will take a voip transcoding
line card, and will act as an edge router for a telecom company.

For things like BGP (Quagga, Zebra, all that lovely stuff!!!), static
routes, and firewall capabilities we are thinking gentoo linux
stripped for sure however, what about the BSDs? FreeBSD or OpenBSD.
Any comments, feedback, does, and don'ts are much appreciated.

Kind Regards,

Nick.




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