On Wed, 14 Mar 2012, Faisal Imtiaz wrote:
while this is reasonable, we all have to keep in mind, that you can I can
'toss' in route-reflectors for a few hundred to a few thousand dollars
each... Folks like VZ and AT&T pay top dollars for top capacity equipment to
handle stuff.. so you are talking about a few 'route-reflectors' for $50k or
$150k each ? ....
(Remember these are the folks who are paying full prices on the Cisco /
Juniper boxes.....)
I doubt they are paying list price for their gear. If they are, I'd like
to find out who from $carrier pulled the trigger on that deal, so I can
talk to them about buying some beachfront property in Kansas ;)
Still, point taken, and I didn't mean to suggest that any provider should
just throw routers on their network on a whim. I've driven big networks
for long enough to know that's not such a good idea.
if you ever looked at the Cisco Top of the line router.. ( I don't remember
what it called, but do remember the starting price for a base config is
$250K, going up to $750k... was designed to meet the demands of larger
network operators such as VZ / AT&T etc...)
I have a quote for a pair of them sitting on my desk - not for the
customer in question.
There are existing solutions which are very easy to implement, which will
allow you to do this, without having to deal too much with the underlying
carrier
I have yet to see such a solution that doesn't:
1. require waiting for DNS records to be updated, at which point you're at
the mercy of the providers in question and whatever the TTL is on the DNS
records.
2. turn 1 single point of failure into >1 single points of failure.
3. require manual intervention (me getting called at 3 AM) to fix (see
item 1).
so my question becomes.... if you need this, and you can solve this easily
from your side... why do you want a behemoth to change and deliver ?....
(Even if they did you are not going to be happy with how they are performing
It was more of a point of wishful thinking and inquiry. I completely
understand and accept that said behemoth is unlikely to change their product
portfolio based on a thread on NANOG :)
jms
