[j-nsp] MX80 as BRAS

[Paul Stewart]

We are just heading down that road with a bunch of MX80's... if I recall
there are 16k IFL's in the MX80 which (if vlan tags are present) we're told
means a max of 8k sessions (2 IFL's per subscriber).  Somewhere in some
discussions with Juniper we understand that it's realistically 4-5K though.

The other thing is that it has no LNS functionality today we're told - for
our needs on these projects that is fine as we're going "native PPPOE"
directly off DSLAM aggregation points (Occam/Calix).

I'd love to hear some feedback on this though too - we've just labbed up the
first box but have not passed any traffic on it yet and verify the
information that's been told to us so far...

Cheers,

Paul


-----Original Message-----
From: juniper-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
[mailto:juniper-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Mauritz Lewies
Sent: August-18-11 2:38 PM
To: juniper-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: [j-nsp] MX80 as BRAS

Hi

We're looking at replacing some Cisco ASRs with tin that can handle more
PPPoE sessions.
I have experience on the M120, but that does not scale and the cost per
subscriber is way too high.

I was considering deploying 2 x MX80s (active + active), due to low relative
cost considering 128k sessions combined.

Has anyone used them as BRAS devices with success?

Mauritz Lewies
email: mo at three6five.com
mobile: +27 83 647 4901
Skype Phone:  +27 11 08 365 02
three6five network solutions
www.three6five.com

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