[j-nsp] Fwd: router recommendation

[Joe Hamelin]

The big difference is that the J series routes everything through the
Intel CPU.  They do some trick daemon scheduling to get the best
packet rate out of them but it's still a software router.
--
Joe Hamelin, W7COM, Tulalip, WA, 360-474-7474



On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Keegan Holley
<keegan.holley at sungard.com> wrote:
> I've always thought of the J-Series as an enterprise/remote site router and
> not a service provider device.  Strangely enough I can't find the throughput
> ratings on the data sheet, but I'm sure it's lower than the M/MX and the
> like.  I'm not sure if it can handle 2-3G of traffic, you should ask the
> reseller for specs or search juniper.net.  The other thing I noticed was
> that it only supports a max  of 400k BGP routes.  If the full table is 340
> or so that doesn't leave much for L2/L3 vrf's.  Just my 2c.
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Richard Zheng <rzheng at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> A juniper reseller came back with a suggestion of J-4350. The price is
>> similar to a used M7i. I was surprised by this option first. Then
>> considering that the application is for a small ISP, it might not be bad.
>> The DRAM may be upgraded to 2G which should hold several whole Internet
>> tables for quite a while.
>>
>> Any comment?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Richard Zheng <rzheng at gmail.com>
>> Date: Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 8:09 AM
>> Subject: router recommendation
>> To: juniper-nsp at puck.nether.net
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'd like to have some recommendation of a router model. It is for a small
>> ISP. There are 2 or 3 upstreams which feeds the whole Internet routing
>> table. Total about 20 peering sessions. The traffic is about 2-3G in 12
>> months. Right now we only care about Internet. But if it can scale to
>> support layer 2 and/or layer 3 VPN services, that's a big plus.
>>
>> We have dealt with M20 about 4-5 years ago. I am looking at M7i or M10i.
>> Not
>> sure if I am on the right path.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Richard
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