[c-nsp] Juniper equivalent for Cisco Cat 6500

[Andrew Miehs]

Thanks to all so far who have responded.

ASR9000 would be great, but it doesn't compete on price with a 6504 - and
we currently don't need to extra performance. It is an Ethernet campus
installation. Sorry I wasn't clearer about that.

The issue I have is that I need to bring the price down on the edge. The
current design has a pair of 4500s acting as CEs connected to 6500s in the
core. Additional L2 access switches hang off the two CEs. The problem is
that once you start trying to peer 20 vrfs (802.1q) across these links you
end up with a lot of sub interfaces, and an extremely complicated CE
configuration. This is of course not to mention the HSRP and STP mess that
results on top of this...

Ideally I would move to a pair of 6504s (VSS) as PE/CEs, bring MPLS right
to the edge and terminate the SVIs directly on these boxes. The L2 access
switches - 4510s would then hang per port channel off the 6504s... I am
also considering suggesting using a single 6500, but the customer was
extremely keen on redundant boxes.

Thanks for any suggestions...

Andrew