[j-nsp] Juniper EX

[Eric Van Tol]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: juniper-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:juniper-nsp-
> bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of David Ball
> Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 10:54 PM
> To: Rubens Kuhl Jr.
> Cc: juniper-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [j-nsp] Juniper EX
>
>   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

Agreed.

On a somewhat related note, I fear that they're going to have some trouble retaining some customers if they can't get the EX documenation correct.  Configuring an EX3200 for the first time, I've already found 5 or 6 documentation errors that cost me some time trying to figure out.  You'd think for such a highly anticipated hardware release, someone would have spent some time qual'ing the docs.

-evt