How many BGP sessions on v5000/v3000?

I’m looking at doing a switch centric design and having a preseem appliance (a bridge) in the loop.

I’m wondering if I can add multiple BGP peers on the V5000 radio so I can handle bypassing the preseem appliance through BGP.

Topology (router will be trunk ports, others will be access ports on the switch)

WAN>Switch(VLAN20-WAN)
Router-port1>Switch(VLAN20-WAN)

V5000>Switch(VLAN50-terragraph)
Preseem-port1>Switch(VLAN50-terragraph)
Router-port3>Switch(VLAN50-terragraph)

Router-port2>Switch(VLAN51-corenet
Preseem-port2>Switch(VLAN51-corenet)

The goal to peer between V5000 and Router on VLAN50 and a second peer on VLAN51. to have a through-preseem path and a bypass path and add one to the AS path to favor the preseem path.

excluding the switch fabric:
WAN>ROUTER>PRESEEM>V5000 is the 0 cost path
WAN>ROUTER>V5000 is the +1 cost path

Can I do this, does the V5000 have the ability to have multiple peers like this?

We allow multiple BGP Peers. Please see Add New button in GUI. Snapshot below

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Awesome, thanks Kiran.