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Re: BGP Enabled transit in Chicago (River North) and equipment recommendation


From: Brielle <bruns () 2mbit com>
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2019 13:32:56 -0600

On 9/3/2019 12:19 PM, Matt Harris wrote:
But even the higher-end Ubiquiti EdgeRouter series products can handle full tables if you understand and accept their limitations in doing so if budget is a huge concern but you still need to take full tables.

As long as you stick with the 1.10.10 series of firmware, the EdgeRouter series is pretty stable. I run an EdgeRouter Infinity (8 x 10G SFP+) at home with both IPv4 and IPv6 BGP feeds on a CenturyLink Fiber+ connection.

You can get the original EdgeRouter Lite for sub $100 and it will have no problem taking a full feed for both v4 and v6... However, better choice is the EdgeRouter 4, which is a bit newer and much faster.

There's also the ER6P if you need something with more ports, or even the ER12/12P if you want something with a built in network switch. Just avoid the budget oriented ERX and ER10X which lack the RAM.

All of the ERs are low power consumption and Linux based with a Vyatta/VyOS/Juniper-like CLI, so pretty easy to work with.

(I do Ubiquiti deployments, so can answer a lot of questions anyone might have).

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Brielle Bruns
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