[j-nsp] EX8200 VirtualChassis versus Cisco VSS

[Billy Sneed]

The EX8200 Virtual-Chassis w/ a couple of the XRE200's does well. The 
XRE's act as the control plane and the 8200's end up just being 
linecards. It's a bit hack-ish IMHO w/ a EX2200 switch acting as the 
glue between each XRE and the 8200.

We've run 11.2 - 11.4 and pleased w/ the stability. Our VC is split 
between two buildings a few SM fiber pairs acting as the VC connections 
between. We've dozens of aggregation switches (EX4500's & EX4200's) 
connected w/ LACP to each and are very pleased.

Regards,
Billy

On 08/13/2013 05:46 AM, Robert Hass wrote:
> How Virtual-Chassis on Juniper EX8200 is different than Catalyst 6500
> (Sup2T) VSS ?
>
> Are both have shared control-plane ?
>
> How about stability of Virtual-Chassis and VSS on latest software releases ?
>
>
>
> I would like to implement core layer using EX8200 or Cat6500 (two core
> switches).
>
> Each core device will have only redundant power-supply. Line cards, CPU etc
> will be non-redundant. Redundancy will be archived using two boxes.
> Access-Layer switch will be connected to both core devices using 1GE or
> 10GE links and aggregated into single PortChannel (LACP).
>
> Access devices will be Cat2960XR (Cisco) or EX3300 (Juniper).
>
>
>
> Rob
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