[j-nsp] MX80 vs MX240

[Giuliano Cardozo Medalha]

  Tim,

We have 4 x MX80-48 (48 x 10/100/1000 + 4 XFP) - routing license and 2 
GB DRAM - running in or production network.

It is a big strength box. However, JUNIPER looks like to be in a 
development phase for JUNOS running with TRIO 3D asics.

We got some problems with BGP and MPLS configurations. Some software 
instabilities. We are now running 10.2R2 without any trouble.

In one of this boxes we run:

4 x BGP Full Routing for IPv4
6 x BGP Partial Routing for IPv4
2 x BGP Full Routing for IPv6
OSPFv2
OSPFv3

We have 2 x 10 Giga Links ... Using 90% of their capacities.

Are you thinking to buy MX240 with TRIO 3D cards ?

Another important thing about future is:

- Juniper will release new RE cards (DUAL and QUAD CORE with 16 and 32 
GB DRAM)
- The actual RE2000 for MX240 supports 4GB DRAM ... and better IPv4 and 
IPv6 address space ... I think.
- MX240 supports redundant RE
- MX240 will support 100 GE Ethernet boards in near future
- MX80 will support virtual chassis technology next year

Att,

Giuliano
> Hi all,
>
> We are working on a new colo deployment and we are trying to choose
> between the MX80 and the MX240.  With our current budget the MX240 is
> definitely a stretch over the MX80.  On paper, the MX80 has more than
> enough horsepower to meet our needs for the foreseeable future, however
> I was wondering if anyone has any comments on their experience with it
> in production.  We are looking at the MX80-AC chassis with the 20x1Gb
> SFP MIC card with a mixture of SX and copper SFPs.
>
> Our immediate needs:
>
> - IPv4 and IPv6
> - BGP (3-4 full tables, 1-2 partial tables)
> - OSPF
> - Sampled netflow
> - SNMP monitoring
>
> Has anyone had problems running the MX80 in their network, with the
> features above or with other commonly used features?  Other than access
> to the MS-DPC blade and the expandability for the larger MX systems, are
> there any significant benefits to using a MX240 over the MX80?
>
> Please feel free to send offlist responses if you feel they are more
> appropriate.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Tim
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