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

[Lee Pedder]

Hi Scott,

Have you looked at the Brocade CER2000? It has a better price point
than the MLX-4 at the expense of internal redundancy. It will do 512k
routes in hardware and is based on the same Ironware as the XMR/MLX
series.

I am looking to evaluate one soon, but at the moment I run MLX-4s and
they have been rock solid as edge routers with a handful of BGP
sessions. I can't comment on the Juniper MX series but when I last
priced one it wasn't competitive for my needs, although it does seem
to offer more features plus the usual benefits you get with Junos
management.

Lee

On 7 May 2010 03:59, Scott T. Cameron <routehero at gmail.com> 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?
> Thanks.
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