[j-nsp] SRX1400 opinions

[Pavel Lunin]

2013/4/28 James Howlett <jim.howlett at outlook.com>

On the side note - does Juniper plan to have a replacement for J-series? Or
> we should switch to MX now?
>

I doubt you really need an MX. Though depends on what actually you are
using the J routers for.

Basically J series and Branch SRX (this is the official replacement for
J-series) are much the same platform. While J is Intel based and SRX is
multicore Cavium Octeon, all this is rather technical details implying
better price/performance for SRX, but from the features point of view, they
are very same.

There is quite a big difference between a J-series router running old (IIRC
<9.4) packet-based only code and J/SRX running JUNOS-ES or modern (IIRC
9.6+) code, but J and SRX running JUNOS like 10.x/11.x are much the same
thing. The difference is all about price/performance and number of ports
(SRX is better in these terms as it's just more modern). So, basically,
SRX550 is what you need in place of J4350. Or maybe even SRX240.

If you are still running the old code intentionally, then… hm, than, I
believe, you know better what you need :)