[c-nsp] Juniper equivalent for Cisco Cat 6500

Dale W. Carder dwcarder at wisc.edu
Wed May 23 15:39:53 EDT 2012


Thus spake Andrew Miehs (andrew at 2sheds.de) on Thu, May 24, 2012 at 01:00:15AM +1000:
> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 12:40 AM, Dale W. Carder <dwcarder at wisc.edu> wrote:
> 
> > How many CE devices are you talking about?
> >
> > Easiest way to save cash is to avoid licensing costs, so move all
> > routing to the "core".
> >
> 
> About 150 pairs of CEs

Should work fine on sup-2t.  We average about 100 CE (layer 2 only,
typically 3750-12S stacks) per pair of cat6k-sup720.  Then there is only
ipbase/SMI featureset downstream.  For us in aggregate that amounted to 
.6M (list) savings.

I'm not saying this is ideal, but cheap and it works.

Dale


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