[c-nsp] Re: Cisco 7600 vs Juniper M7i

[Kristofer Sigurdsson]

On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 10:54 +0000, Marko Milivojevic wrote:
>  > you can take a look on this report from miercom:
>  >
>  > http://www.miercom.com/dl.html?fid=20050404&type=report
>  >
>  > It compares an cisco 7604 with a Juniper M10i.
> 
> 	I am by no means Juniper fanatic, nor I have ever used Juniper in my life.

Same here.

> 
> 	That said, this is strange report. Either that Juniper M10i is a piece 
> of junk (I'm not buying that argument), or they had horribly 
> misconfigured it. Even 7200 with NPE-G1 would perform better under some 
> of those conditions (10-entry ACL drops performance by 38% as compared 
> to no ACL).

The study was ordered and paid for by Cisco.  According to the study, 
Juniper refused to actively participate.  One wonders why. :)

I've seen Cisco reference studies by Miercom before, always to show that
their products are the best ones on the market and outperform 
everything, etc.

>From the look of this I'd say Cisco is just buying Miercom's stamp. :)

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