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

Andreas Larsen andreas at larsen.pl
Tue May 11 02:37:40 EDT 2010


We have 16 MLX 8 installed in our network. They are good however they
seriously lack memory when it comes to dualstacking ipv6 and ipv4 I wouldn't
today buy a XMR rather to be more future proof.

Regards Andreas

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 7:31 AM, Richard A Steenbergen <ras at e-gerbil.net>wrote:

> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 09:22:17PM -0700, David Kotlerewsky wrote:
> > Samit,
> >
> > List price in MX80 will be 40K for the model with fixed 48x RJ45 ports
> > + 4x 10GbE XFP ports. A similarly built MLX-4 config will run at
> > $79,730 (base chassis with 1 mgmt module, 2 fabric modules, 1 AC
> > power+fan is $19,245. Then you need to add 1 4x10GbE XFP module at
> > $27,495 and 2x MLX 20-port 1GbE RJ45 modules at $16,495 each). Now you
> > may get a very nice discount from Brocade, but Juniper will be game as
> > well in trying to market the MX80, so you may see some really nice
> > discounts. Also, the MX80 is only 2U of space, and the MLX-4 is 4U.
>
> $40k is just the base, it's another $20k for the full routing license.
>
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