[c-nsp] Cisco vs. Juniper

[sthaug at nethelp.no]

> In the past I have compared M7i with ASR1k

The M7i is getting a bit long in the tooth, so a better comparison
might be ASR1k vs MX80. One important difference if you need a box
*now* is of course that MX80 has been announced but I haven't seen it
in the price lists yet.

> The major comparison seemed to be that for about the same sort of money
> Cisco gave you a box with 4 Gig interfaces present whilst J gave you
> one, and adding more was very expensive.

Agreed, full capacity GigE ports on the M7i are expensive. However,
the (overbooked) 4 port IQ2 works very well.

> Throughputs would have been about the same, and one thing that bit us on
> the Juniper side was you can't hope to use Netflow in a real environment
> without an expensive services PIC.

Here I'd have to disagree. Sampled netflow works very well without a
services PIC. If you don't do sampling the situation is different.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no