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Re: Recommended L2 switches for a new IXP
From: Michael Smith <mksmith () mac com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 01:45:55 +0000 (GMT)
You can see what we have at the SIX here - http://www.seattleix.net/topology.html Mike -- Michael K. Smith mksmith () mac com On Jan 11, 2015, at 10:37 PM, Manuel Marín <mmg () transtelco net> wrote: Dear Nanog community We are trying to build a new IXP in some US Metro areas where we have multiple POPs and I was wondering what do you recommend for L2 switches. I know that some IXPs use Nexus, Brocade, Force10 but I don't personally have experience with these switches. It would be great if you can share your experience and recommendations. There are so many options that I don't know if it makes sense to start with a modular switch (usually expensive because the backplane, dual dc, dual CPU, etc) or start with a 1RU high density switch that support new protocols like Trill and that supposedly allow you to create Ethernet Fabric/Clusters. The requirements are simple, 1G/10G ports for exchange participants, 40G/100G for uplinks between switches and flow support for statistics and traffic analysis. Thank you and have a great day. Regards
Current thread:
- Re: Recommended L2 switches for a new IXP, (continued)
- Re: Recommended L2 switches for a new IXP Tim Raphael (Jan 13)
- Re: Recommended L2 switches for a new IXP Jeff Tantsura (Jan 13)
- Re: Recommended L2 switches for a new IXP Mark Tinka (Jan 13)
- Re: Recommended L2 switches for a new IXP Chuck Anderson (Jan 15)
- Re: Recommended L2 switches for a new IXP Stephen R. Carter (Jan 13)
- Re: Recommended L2 switches for a new IXP Richard Hartmann (Jan 15)
- Re: Recommended L2 switches for a new IXP Stephen R. Carter (Jan 15)
- Re: Recommended L2 switches for a new IXP Martin Hannigan (Jan 12)
- Re: Recommended L2 switches for a new IXP Saku Ytti (Jan 17)
- Re: Recommended L2 switches for a new IXP Marian Ďurkovič (Jan 19)
- Re: Recommended L2 switches for a new IXP Nick Hilliard (Jan 19)
- Re: Recommended L2 switches for a new IXP Phil Bedard (Jan 19)
- Re: Recommended L2 switches for a new IXP Marian Ďurkovič (Jan 20)
- Re: Recommended L2 switches for a new IXP Phil Bedard (Jan 20)