On Thursday, February 13, 2014 12:28:47 AM Vlade Ristevski wrote: > My Cisco SE brought up an interesting alternative. This > summer we're replacing our 6513 Sup720 with a pair of > 6807 with redundant Sup 2Ts. It is where all our > internal Fiber terminates and where internal routing > happens. He said we can add extra memory and terminate > our BGP sessions here and use that for our Internet > connections. After thinking it over, I'd still rather > have dedicated routers for our Internet access but I'm > curious what you guys think about this suggestion.
If you have the budget, run dedicated peering/upstream routers. Hierarchical separation of functions at the hardware level provides lots of flexibility in other areas as your network grows. If cash is not a constraint, go for it, I'd say. Mark.
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