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

[Andreas Larsen]

Maybe not full routing dualstack but it will at least last longer than a
MLX. So if you HAVE to buy a platform today why not buy one that last one or
two more years ? for approx 20% more of the price.

// Andreas

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 3:40 AM, George B. <georgeb at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Niels Bakker
> <niels=foundry-nsp at bakker.net> wrote:
> > * georgeb at gmail.com (George B.) [Wed 12 May 2010, 01:34 CEST]:
> >>
> >> And basically the reason is ... I currently show about 320,000 routes
> >> from one upstream for v4.  The MLX can handle 512,000 v4 routes in
> >> hardware.  That leaves room for about 48,000 ipv6 routes provided the
> >> v4 routing table stops growing today but exactly the opposite is going
> >> to happen.  As what remaining v4 addresses are broken into smaller
> >> pieces, the routing table is going to continue to grow with smaller
> >> prefixes.
> >
> > Ample room for growth if you follow the previous poster's advice which
> was
> > to get an XMR if you want to future-proof your routing.
> >
> >
> >        -- Niels.
>
> Not exactly "ample".  XMR has room for 1,000,000 routes in hardware.
> That is room for 170,000 v6 routes on top of the current 320,000 v4
> routes.  Those will blow up, too.  I am guessing that the breaking
> point will be somewhere around 400,000 v4 routes and 100,000 v6
> routes. The price difference between MLX and MXR blades is pretty
> steep for no other benefit than more routes.  First vendor to get to
> market with a huge CAM resource is going to win, bigtime.  I don't
> believe any hardware currently built for the medium size market will
> handle full routes dual-stacked once v6 is the norm.
>
> George
>
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