Hi list,

Just got the ISP-BGP welcome message so I thought I'd be a good boy and
post a short intro to myself :-)

I work for a start-up Dutch Internet Exchange that's in the middle of a
major network expansion and we rely heavily on all kinds of neat BGP
tricks to keep ourselves and our customers happy. Our core network
currently consists of a routing backbone on a Froundry NetIron 400 and a
NetIron 800 with a Riverstone RS8000, an Extreme BD6808 and a BigIron
8000 as aggregation switches in different geographical places to get
traffic to our router core and break out traffic to customer coming from
the core. 
Now I can already hear everyoone thinking "why don't they use Juniper or
Cisco for their Layer 3", but we're very pleased with the NetIron's
performance and the combined Oc3/Oc12 PoS-blades alone are lifesafers in
our network. The Extreme and Riverstone currently only run as
route-reflector clients on the NetIrons to do some basic local peering
as necessary and everything is as smooth as silk. Like I said, we're
doing a lot of new stuff and I think I'll be needing some advice along
the way so I thought this would be a good place to start in case of
unforseen challenges. Ofcourse, if I can help someone else along the
way, that's a nice bonus. And in case you all wondered, yes I have
worked with Cisco and Juniper a lot in the past, but it never hurts to
try something new :-)

Regards,

-- 
Erik Haagsman
Network Architect
We Dare BV
tel: +31(0)10-7507008
fax: +31(0)10-7507005
http://www.we-dare.nl


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