[j-nsp] Why should I *not* buy an MX?

[sthaug at nethelp.no]

>     I'm not sure I follow.......do you not consider Foundry's MLX and
> XMR lines to be 'routers' ?  I admit, they've essentially taken a
> switch and taught it to route.....similar to the way Juniper took a
> router and are teaching it to switch (MX doing STP, etc).

We haven't seriously looked at Foundry MLX and XMR, so I can't comment
on those. We *do* know quite a bit about Cisco 6500/7600 and how well
turning a switch into a router has worked for them. Knowing this we
are very glad that the Juniper MX series "inheritance" is from the
router side...

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no