Hello Mike :)

On Wednesday, November 13th, 2024 at 10:55 AM, Mike Neo <neomike...@gmail.com> 
wrote:
> I am looking for a 1U rack platform with 1x or 2x psu with low power 
> consumption for a bird-based bgp router (Ubuntu). The supported traffic is 
> expected to be ~1-2Gbps. Can anyone recommend a tested solution?

That will depend heavily of how many routes it needs to hold and how many 
routing updates it will need to process. (bird is part of the control plane, it 
does not play any role in the actual forwarding of packets so throughput is not 
really relevant to bird) Important questions would be, is it expected to hold 
and process a full Internet routing table? How many peers / transit providers 
are expected ?

Handling more than gigabit-ish will require either a fast CPU or some sort of 
data-plane hardware acceleration, the former competing with the need for low 
power consumption, while the latter might not be easy to pull off using a 
general purpose operating system.

As for an appliance recommendation, I've been very satisfied with the Traverse 
Ten64 which probably meets your requirements: 
https://www.crowdsupply.com/traverse-technologies/ten64

Cheers!

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