[j-nsp] What do you think about the MX line?

[Chris]

I just wanted to say thank you to all that posted feedback to this
thread. Your insight has been incredibly helpful and has most
certainly clarified many of the questions I had lingering.

Thanks again!!

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 12:23 AM, Ryan Finnesey
<ryan.finnesey at harrierinvestments.com> wrote:
> Thank you I will look into that unit some more.
>
> Cheers
> Ryan
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Correa Adolfo [mailto:acorrea at mcmtelecom.com.mx]
> Sent: Monday, June 27, 2011 9:22 PM
> To: Mehmet Akcin; Ryan Finnesey
> Cc: juniper-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: RE: [j-nsp] What do you think about the MX line?
>
> Yes, I'd go for MX240 and upper, as you could grow them redundantly and
> also in memory in the future.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: juniper-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
> [mailto:juniper-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Mehmet Akcin
> Sent: domingo, 26 de junio de 2011 11:25 p.m.
> To: Ryan Finnesey
> Cc: juniper-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [j-nsp] What do you think about the MX line?
>
> you probably want MX240-480-960s rather.
>
> mehmet
>
> On Jun 26, 2011, at 8:59 PM, Ryan Finnesey wrote:
>
>> We are looking at the MX80s for about 60GB of traffic  with also some
> private MLPS interconnection.
>> Cheers
>> Ryan
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Timothy Kaufman [mailto:tkaufman at corp.nac.net]
>> Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2011 11:49 PM
>> To: Ryan Finnesey; 'mtinka at globaltransit.net';
> 'juniper-nsp at puck.nether.net'
>> Subject: Re: [j-nsp] What do you think about the MX line?
>>
>> Which one are you looking at?
>> How many peers do you plan to configure?
>> How much traffic?
>> Thanks
>>
>> Tim Kaufman
>> Sent via blackberry
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: juniper-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
>> <juniper-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net>
>> To: mtinka at globaltransit.net <mtinka at globaltransit.net>;
>> juniper-nsp at puck.nether.net <juniper-nsp at puck.nether.net>
>> Sent: Sun Jun 26 22:15:34 2011
>> Subject: Re: [j-nsp] What do you think about the MX line?
>>
>> For us I will be looking at the MX Line mainly for peering.  Anyone
> having issues with using them with peering?
>>
>> Cheers
>> Ryan
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: juniper-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
>> [mailto:juniper-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Mark Tinka
>> Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2011 9:19 PM
>> To: juniper-nsp at puck.nether.net
>> Subject: Re: [j-nsp] What do you think about the MX line?
>>
>> On Monday, June 27, 2011 06:56:48 AM Keegan Holley wrote:
>>
>>> I think the general attitude is positive towards them.
>>> They are a good compliment to the M/T series and generally solid
>>> flexible boxes.  You should probably include how you plan to use them
>
>>> in your question.  For example a few list members complain about
>>> multicast/IGMP bugs and other issues with the new trio based cards
>>> and
>>
>>> some of the new code.  If you don't run alot of multicast these
>>> wouldn't really apply to you.
>>
>> For us, we use them heavily in the edge, and that hasn't been the
> smoothest of rides.
>>
>> My guess is if you need them for peering or in the core, you might
> have less issues, but not necessarily (we already know of core
> applications where the MX could be troublesome - but the edge role takes
> the cake, by far).
>>
>> There are also some limitations, so far, if we use them as BRAS's, but
> these are mostly bugs are feature unavailability at this time. The
> problem is that without the feature being present today, it's hard to
> know how the box will scale, which could be a big problem unto itself.
>>
>> All in all, it depends on the complexity/sophistication of your
> deployment, the role you're placing the MX in, and what features you're
> going to need. For some folk, it's the perfect box. For others, it's
> less so.
>>
>> Mark.
>>
>>
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