As far as whether or not that’s carrier grade, I know that all of the carriers I’ve ordered from have provided just one uplink and that one uplink has never gone down. While redundancy is always a big bonus, I also think that with proper design and planning a single uplink can provide the five nines everyone is looking for. Would I expect that sort of performance from a discount carrier? No… But then again I wouldn’t purchase from a discount carrier.

With most of our customers now over in the Issaquah datacenter, our 6509 is mostly fiber interfaces at this point. We’re trying to get the word out to folks in the Westin as well as Fisher Plaza and the Intergate campuses down south that we’ve got a pretty nice bandwidth product here and can sell at wholesale rates.

Our uplinks to Issaquah are actually lit service from Time Warner Telecom and yes, they terminate directly on the 6509.

It also sounds like you only have 1 sup 720 in the chassis?

Generally, I assume about $250k for a single 6509 with dual redundany sup720’s and the rest of the slots filled with triple speed 48 port blades. Get a second one of those and truly you have arrived with over 600 ports at your disposal

If anyone knows how costly this big iron is its me, so I don’t mean to steal the wind from your sails.

Even just one 6509 is a tremendous accomplishment for a datacenter startup. Congrats!

Not only that it allows you to be the cheapest per U in town since you dont have to offset the cost of half a million in fully redundant 6509’s.

So do you have the 10Gig links feeding directly into the 6509 or have you got a couple of the old routers doing that for the 6509?