I was looking for a 12 or 16 port SFP gigabit managed switch for securing my 10 POP locations by a protected ring fiber network.
I came across http://routerboard.com/CRS212-1G-10S-1SplusIN
and the price seems amazing, but before I put the money on this, I have to be sure that it can really handle what I need.
My network is CO and then 10 tower locations. All the towers get their own dedicated core from the CO and it will eventually reach back to CO, so it becomes a protected ring.
Now, each tower needs to have a fiber switch to input its core and output it go ahead.
And we might have local customers connected through that fiber switch as well. So, basically each tower will pass traffic like 5Gbps or so and over 12000 customers.
So, can this switch really handle it ?
Or will the CPU burst out ?
Im taking the max assumption as 5Gbps and 12000 customers.