[j-nsp] Advice on a 100Gbps+ environment

[Mark Tinka]

On Tuesday, July 02, 2013 04:50:43 PM Saku Ytti wrote:

> MX104 has faster QorIQ core and 4GB DRAM.

Althought I'd have been happier to see a 1U MX switch-router 
from Juniper, the MX104 is a reasonably welcome chassis, 
particularly if you're looking at mixed Ethernet and non-
Ethernet (mostly non-Ethernet) deployments in the edge. I'm 
talking STM-1/OC-3, STM-4/OC-12, STM-16/OC-48, that type of 
thing.

Low-speed ports are quite a waste in a chassis with this 
much muscle, but if you want to stick them without 
completely feeling raped, the MX104 is not such a bad 
compromise, all things considered.

We've mostly looked at Cisco's ASR1006 for this, but the 
MX104 is now a considerable answer to that platform. The 
only problem will be that Cisco SPA's are way cheaper than 
Juniper MIC's, particularly if you buy them on the grey 
market (making them quite available in the wild for 
peanuts). And if you've come from a Cisco chassis that 
needed them (think SIP carriers cards on the Cisco 6500, 
7600, XR 12000, e.t.c.), then you'd be remiss not migrate 
them to an ASR1000.

Nonetheless, a mighty effort from Juniper. Those on-board 
10Gbps Ethernet ports will certainly give the ASR1000 
something to think about, although if you're mostly using an 
ASR1000 or MX104 for non-Ethernet terminations in the edge, 
you're unlikely to ever feel constrained on 1x or even 2x 
10Gbps uplinks into the core, never mind 4x.

Cheers,

Mark.
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