[j-nsp] Cisco 7206 replacement

[Mark Tinka]

On Tuesday, December 28, 2010 10:34:42 am Jonathan Lassoff 
wrote:

> Many resellers will give you a good deal if you're
> checking out Juniper for the first time, since they
> usually have way better products that Cisco but cost a
> little more. It's easy to get hooked on well-made
> routers :p

I wouldn't necessarily agree - the performance gap between 
Juniper and Cisco is fast-closing when you look at the 
ASR1000, ASR9000 and CRS vs. the MX-series, M120, M320 and 
T-series.

The price gap is even more interesting.

The things that currently annoy me with Juniper are:

	- JUNOS has been terrible, hopefully 2011 is a
	  better year.

	- Strange and silly hardware restrictions that
	  inconvenience you when you least expect it, e.g.,
	  lack of Translation Tables support on the MX
	  DPC's, lack of H-QoS on the current 16-port 10Gbps
	  MPC card, the need for additional Services PIC's
	  for certain basic services (I agree that very
	  advanced services would scale best when offloaded
	  to dedicated hardware), e.t.c.
	
	- No decent contender to Cisco's ASR1000 platform -
	  it currently makes no sense for us to invest in
	  the M7i/M10i boxes, and yet the M120 and MX-series
	  boxes are too large. I hope this can be rectified
	  soon.

On the other hand, IOS XE and IOS XR are still catching up 
in terms of features (even still catching up to vanilla 
IOS), but from where we're standing, nothing that will 
require new hardware for the most basic of services.

Cheers,

Mark.
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