[j-nsp] 1000 VRRP instances per IFD and IRB

[Stefan Fouant]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ross Vandegrift [mailto:ross at kallisti.us]
> Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 9:51 AM
> To: Stefan Fouant
> Cc: juniper-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [j-nsp] 1000 VRRP instances per IFD and IRB
> 
> Yea, heard all about Stratus at last year's EBR.  We haven't stopped
laughing
> at it with our account team since.  We got the info under NDA, so I'm not
> really sure what I can talk about.
> 
> It'll take 10 years to proven stability before anyone here is going to
deploy
> anything like that.  The MX is one of the most predictable and consistent
> platforms I've ever used.  Messing with that is scary.

Is it ambitious?  Sure.  Are there bound to be some bumps along the way?
Sure.  But I think it proves that Juniper has really been thinking long and
hard about the inefficiencies of modern Data Center architectures, and how
to simplify that architecture given the new trends toward Service Oriented
Architectures, Server and Storage Virtualization, and the changing ebb of
traffic patterns as a result of those trends.  

And BTW, recent announcements by Cisco last week regarding their FabricPath
and Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV) technology make me think I've
heard this story before - what they are talking about is strangely familiar
to what Juniper has talking about for almost a year now. 

The Data Center wars are on, and Juniper launched the first salvo a long
time ago.  I'm pretty sure that no matter which vendor you go with, this is
pretty much going to be the Data Center architecture of tomorrow - in other
words, it's coming soon to a theatre near you!  If anyone is going to pull
it off, I'm going to put my money on the development talent at Juniper.

Just my $.02.

Stefan Fouant, CISSP, JNCIEx2
www.shortestpathfirst.net
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