[j-nsp] MX240

[Richard A Steenbergen]

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 06:44:21PM -0700, Keith wrote:
> 
> We are replacing an aged 7206vxr w/G1. We have a price point and our cisco
> rep came in on that price point with 2 ASR1002 10GE and 5 SFP's, 2 of
> them for redundency.
> 
> Our Juniper quote came back with a fully redundent MX240 with 8 SFP's at
> the same price point. It has a MX-MPC1-3D line card and the 20 port GigE
> SFP MIC.

Not to ruin your Juniper rep's day, but you'd be much better off waiting
for the MX80 (which has finally hit the May price list). Compare list
prices of the following configurations:

MX80 fixed 4-port XFP + 48-port 10/100/1000 + routing         $ 60,000
MX80 modular 4-port XFP + 20-port SFP + empty slot + routing  $ 89,000
MX240 redundant base + MPC1 + 20-port SFP routing             $176,000

Of course the MX80 doesn't have redundant RE's, but for the price
difference you could just buy two and still save a lot of money. Note
that the MX240 doesn't have a 4x10GE in that config above. Also, if you
did decide to go the MPC route, you'd be clinically insane not to get an
MPC2 instead of an MPC1. The price (with routing license) is $70k for
MPC1 vs $80k for MPC2, so why not just pay $10k more and get double the
capacity. The nice thing about the MPC+MIC model is the majority of the
cost goes into the MPC (which does all the routing), making the MIC
quite cheap and flexible (e.g. $9k for 20-port SFP, $22.5k for 4-port
XFP, etc).

MX is a much better box than an old M10i, you won't be disappointed
there. Of course MX isn't going to be a good fit if you're still taking
OC3 uplinks. You might be better off just finding another provider who
can give you a GigE or 10GE feed insted. :)

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