> From: Saku Ytti <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 10:07 AM > > On Tue, 29 Oct 2019 at 11:25, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > To the OP's question, > > Since you don't need throughput maybe vMX/cRDP or vXR 9000 with just > > couple of gig of licenses would be an option? > > That way you'll get all the internet proven BGP stack offered by the > > big boxes for fraction of the price tailored to your BW needs. > > But yes there's the who manages the server part unfortunately... > > I'm my experience, in most network outfits the OPEX for compute infra will > eat alive the CAPEX delta of real routers. So you get inferior performance, > you eat compute resources and you pay more. As a very large generalisation, > I think these solutions are better for compute shop doing networking than > network shop doing compute. > > XEON is very expensive NPU. > Sure there's a BW rate above which NPU clearly wins, But for low BW cases like the on in OP's case it's a no brainer even with massive server (total overkill for 10G) the 10G virtual is 8 times cheaper than the cheapest HW option. I'm being vague on purpose here cause I think the list prices are under NDA.
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