Core, High-End, Mid-Size Routers for Enterprises

Many of you are using small scale routers with limited bandwidth requirements from various OEM vendors which includes Cisco, Huawei, Juniper and some of you also going with the other OEMs like ZTE and H3C. The market is big and so there are lot of OEM vendors evolving  around the hardware platforms of routers.

Today i am going to touch some of the routers from the different vendors which can be used at the enterprise level for their Core, at High-end requirement or the Mid-size enterprise requirements within the network. When i talked about the Core routers, definitely a large enterprise uses these routers in the core and can be used for the MPLS core network for high backplane requirement across the global MPLS environment.

I can name some of the enterprises who may be uses these core routers in their backbone and high-end or mid-size routers on top of it. The service providers like AT&T, Verizon, BT Global Services, Orange Business Services, TATA communications, SingTel, Vodafone Services, Airtel Enterprises and Many more to talk about.

This post is basically for the administrator worked into large service providers or enterprise who really want ideas of using the various vendors or OEMs to deploy the routers in their core and others. Here i talked about the OEMs like Cisco, Huawei, Juniper, ZTE and H3C with their models at core, high-end routers, Mid-size routers and use as BRAS routers. Below are the routers table to showcase for your simplification and describe the models.

Fig 1.1- Routers- Core, High-end Routers, Mid-Size Routers and BRAS
The above mentioned routers are the categories from various Vendors who provide you the routers at respective requirements and if you are looking for the router specifications i will cover that in different articles. I will try to provide the description on the basis of the design which router will be suitable with the cost and specifications.