Hi Patrick,

The Cisco's 7201 works perfectly as CPE, they support most protocol and are even a bit evolutive.

As your budget is a limitation, one option is to get a 7201 from the official market, so with all guarantees and support you need from Cisco and your reseller and grab a second one from the grey market / refurbished. You can find some fair deals on ebay for US 8000$, or even have a second 3825 from ebay for 2-3k. Then you may want to have your 7201 populated with ISP#1 on 0/0, SwissIX on 0/1 and your HSRP link on 0/2, then you would have your ISP#2 on the 0/0 and HSRP on the 0/1 of your 3825.

You will have to pick the right ISP on the main router and you have your HA routing cluster working fine for a fair price. Once you have the budget to consolidate you grab a second 7201 and you just do it the best way.

Cheers.

On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:17:00 +0200, Patrick Studer p.studer@x-netconsulting.ch wrote:

Hi Alexandre

Thanks for your suggestion. The solution with a 7201 looks very

interesting

and since one 7201 is near of the price of two 3825, that could be

perhaps

the solutions for which we should go. The only thing is, that with two separate boxes, we are better covered in the case of hardware failure.

Kind Regards

Patrick Studer

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-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Alexandre Egger [mailto:a.egger@neocarrier.com] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 17. September 2009 13:39 An: Patrick Studer Betreff: Multihomed project

Hi Patrick,

I've seen your message on SwiNOG list for your multihoming project.

If you have the budget and want to stick with Cisco, I would suggest you using 7201. They works very well and comes with 1GB or RAM. The end-user price in CHF is ~ 26200CHF, but you can probably get a good 5000 CHF discount since it is likely sold around 18k at reseller price.

Ohterwise as you mentioned the 3800 series can be a way to go. The 3825 with a RAM upgrade to 1GB would bet a very good one, with end-user price

of

10K (with 256 MB of RAM) you can probably grab one for 8500 CHF.

If you are looking for a provider to offer you ASN, IP v4/v6 PI blocks,

or

even hardware please feel free to knock at our door. We price very attractive and have suppliers in Switzerland for hardware from the normal market. We are also able to provide you very attractive IP transit

services

if you are somewhere between Equinix 1 and ICT-Center Zurich.

Wish you the best for your project!

Cheers.