[j-nsp] MX80 vs MX240

[David Ball]

On 19 October 2010 19:16, Giuliano Cardozo Medalha <giulianocm at uol.com.br>wrote:

> - Juniper will release new RE cards (DUAL and QUAD CORE with 16 and 32 GB
> DRAM)
>

   Anyone heard if Juniper is thinking of going the route of running a
backup version of JUNOS on the 2nd core to facilitate the implementation of
ISSU on single RE boxes ?  Cisco is apparently going this route.

David




> - 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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