[c-nsp] Cisco vs. Juniper

[Richard A Steenbergen]

On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 05:49:52AM -0800, Derick Winkworth wrote:
> Really?  The price difference between a 240 and 480 has
> always made me wonder why someone wouldn't just buy the
> 480.  The difference is small.

Funny, I say the same thing about the 960 vs 480. We bought exactly one
480 for a place where we couldn't get anything in the 200-240v range for
power, because 90-120v is supported only on 240/480. For the money I'd
have much rather gotten a 960 and just not powered up the second half. 
Actually if you look at it from a components perspective it actually
costs you more to buy the smaller chassis. For example a fully redundant
MX960 comes with 3 SCBs (fabric modules), a fully redundant MX480 comes
with 2. And the price difference between the two is a fraction of the
cost of buying a spare SCB. Hopefully MX80 fixes these chassis cost
issues with its new more integrated design. I think there is probably a
product line opening for an MX120 or MX160 as well. But again, wrong
mailing list. :)

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