Line rate gigabit router/switch options

[Matthew Huff <mhuff () ox com>]

We have a pair of cisco 7204VXR routers connecting to STFI receiving market data. At peak periods micro-bursts of 
unicast and multicast data overrun the Ethernet fifo buffer due to the 7200 being a cpu based router. A 7600 router 
would be a good replacement but it isn't cost effective. We need BGP, rip, pim multicast and netflow. Since the 
connections are all metro Ethernet, Cisco has suggested looking at the 3750 switch platform that does BGP since all of 
the packets are hardware switched, but it doesn't due L3 netflow. I've been doing cisco for too long and was wondering 
what the cost effective options are with other vendors or even other possible cisco solutions.


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