[f-nsp] NetIron MLX-4 vs Juniper MX240

[Vladimir Litovka]

Hi,

what about MLX/XMR versus Cisco ASR9k? :-)

On 7 May 2010 06:33, Richard A Steenbergen <ras at e-gerbil.net> wrote:

> On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 09:59:31PM -0400, Scott T. Cameron wrote:
> > I'm in the market for a new edge router.  It must be capable of
> performing
> > BGP on IPv4 and IPv6, OSPF and scale to 10GbE uplinks.
> >
> > The two products in mind are:
> >
> > Foundry NetIron MLX-4
> > vs
> > Juniper MX240
> >
> > There will be no more than 10 BGP sessions in the configuration.
> >
> > I have had a bad experience from having early adopted the Juniper
> > SRX-series firewall, so I'm not sure if I can trust their product
> > lines.
> >
> > We already have a large install base of Foundry FESX648s and SX800s in
> the
> > core.
> >
> > Anyone have experience with either?  With both?  Or any other useful
> > guidance?
>
> Juniper MX is one of the best routing platforms on the market, the only
> real arguments against it are a) it's expensive and maybe you don't need
> the features, and b) maybe you/your noc only knows IOS-like cli and
> can't learn something new. SRX on the other hand is a very new platform
> that is extremely extremely buggy. Don't try to compare the two, they
> are almost completely unrelated. :)
>
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