[j-nsp] Juniper EX

[David Ball]

  Hi Eric.  Aviva Garrett (of JunOS Cookbook fame) monitors this list
a bit from what I've seen, and has taken suggestions in the past.  I'm
sure any corrections you point out won't fall on deaf ears.

David


On 18/04/2008, Eric Van Tol <eric at atlantech.net> wrote:
> > -----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
>