[j-nsp] Juniper EX

[David Ball]

  I sat through the EX presentation given by our account team a month
or 2 ago.  To me, they look to have tremendous potential.  However,
the lack of features currently supported for an SP environment are
what's keeping it out of our network for now (never mind MPLS...they
can't even do QinQ yet).  That said, the expectation was appropriately
set from the get go, I think.  They were targeting the enterprise
market initially, with plans over the next year of enabling features
for SP networks.  The loose roadmap I saw for new features will likely
put us into 2009 before we can take a serious look at them here.  Your
requirements may differ.

David


On 15/04/2008, Rubens Kuhl Jr. <rubensk at gmail.com> wrote:
> Juniper confirmed routing-instances is not supported today on the EX.
>  It will be supported with or without MPLS with the same software
>  release that will support MPLS.
>
>  I'm still curious about how other SPs feel with the positioning and
>  future of the EX regarding Metro Ethernet networks...
>
>
>
>  Rubens
>
>
>
>  On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 7:38 PM, Jonathan Crawford <jj at powerset.com> wrote:
>  > Rubens,
>  >
>  >  It has this nice error in the config block when you add it...
>  >
>  >  jj at ex4200-test> show configuration routing-instances
>  >  ##
>  >  ## Warning: configuration block ignored: unsupported platform (ex4200-24t)
>  >  ##
>  >
>  >  So I'd say that is a no... might just be a currently unsupported thing though.
>  >
>  >  -Jonathan
>  >
>  >
>  >
>  >  -----Original Message-----
>  >  From: juniper-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:juniper-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Rubens Kuhl Jr.
>  >  Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 3:04 PM
>  >  To: Juniper-Nsp
>  >  Subject: [j-nsp] Juniper EX
>  >
>  >  I'm considering Juniper EX series for a new Metro Ethernet project,
>  >  but the specs on the site haven't answered some doubts.
>  >
>  >  - Does the EX has some "VRF-Lite" capability, i.e., multiple routing
>  >  tables, attachment of interfaces and protocol instances to different
>  >  contexts ? No MPLS involved, just plain L3 virtual routing.
>  >
>  >  - When the future MPLS software release happens, what MPLS features it
>  >  will have and what it won't never have compared to a M-series router ?
>  >
>  >  - What is the guidance that you've heard from Juniper about Carrier
>  >  Ethernet and Metro Ethernet control plane features ?
>  >
>  >  Tks,
>  >  Rubens
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