[j-nsp] Best route reflector platform

[Andrew Jones]

I know that it's not apples and apples but, for what it's worth, 
Juniper are about to release JunOS Firefly V - a virtualised SRX 
(running JunOS of course). It's downloadable now with a test license, 
and can run in VMWare.



On 16.04.2013 10:37, Phil Bedard wrote:
> I think at some point in the future there will be a virtualized Junos
> which can be deployed on a server, with limitations, but should be
> something that supports route reflection.
>
> Juniper has JCS today but it's obviously not as small of a box as I 
> would
> like.
>
> Phil
>
> On 4/15/13 12:20 PM, "Jeff Aitken" <jaitken at aitken.com> wrote:
>
>>On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 06:47:41PM +0200, Mark Tinka wrote:
>>> ASR1001 with 16GB DRAM. What more do you want, really?
>>
>>Well, it fails my "must run IOS-XR or JUNOS" requirement, for 
>> starters.
>>;-)
>>And seriously, who wants to implement routing policy in IOS?!  
>> Bletch.
>>
>>What I want is something based on a generic compute platform, ala
>>JUNOSphere/VIRL.  That lets me scale the control plane as big as I 
>> need
>>to,
>>avoids wasting money on purpose-built hardware optimized for 
>> forwarding,
>>and comes with the added bonus of using the same OS & policy language
>>that's already widely deployed in my network, so at least I don't get 
>> any
>>NEW interop issues.  The downside is that neither vendor sells such a
>>thing
>>right now, and so we're stuck arguing about which square peg fits 
>> best
>>into
>>the round hole.  ("small" ASR9k and MX here, FWIW)
>>
>>Oh and I also want a two-vendor solution so that I'm (hopefully) not
>>completely screwed the next time one of them discovers a new 
>> attribute-
>>handling bug.
>>
>>
>>--Jeff
>>
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