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

[Morgan McLean]

Wow, this thread snowballed into quite the MX80 debate. For the record, I
run two in production where I am employed full time and they perform
beautifully, though woefully underutilized.

Using static routes and /32's as peering endpoints is a great option I
skimmed over, I'll see if the upstream can do this...they should.

Unfortunately, the customer signed the contract for bandwidth with
inteliquent; we have existing 10G with telia and 10G with cogent along with
a couple existing 10G from inteliquent, but I'm not sure if they'll stay.
So I didn't really have much say...I think the price point was more
important than the benefits of signing to a few carriers. In short, I'm
working on that.

This traffic should be mostly web.

Sorry, I meant to say OSPF and ECMP. I would like to be able to run the
VRRP at the end of row and extend L3 as far as I can, but I guess the
customer wants to be able to spread machines in the same environments among
multiple rows, which is understandable, but that means I need to run L2
from distribution to access. Each row needs 100gbps useable, so I suppose 4
x 40GBE LAGs would do the trick nicely. If my client doesn't want to spend
the money in that area...

Any good aggregation switch suggestions? Juniper is doesn't provide good
ports for $ in the switching realm....customer balked at the cost for a
four port 40G blade on a 9200. Might check out brocade..

Thanks,
Morgan


On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 8:13 AM, Christian de Balorre <
cdebalorre at neotelecoms.com> wrote:

> Slow control-plane. No RE redundancy. More limited rib & fib than regular
> MX. Cryptic licensing scheme.
> Otherwise nothing really wrong.
>
> Christian
>
> Le 02/07/2013 15:55, Drew Weaver a écrit :
>
>  And what is wrong with the MX80 as a peering/transit router for up to
>> 80Gbps of traffic?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -Drew
>>
>>
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>> On Behalf Of Dobbins, Roland
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2013 9:01 AM
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>> On Jul 2, 2013, at 7:19 PM, Mark Tinka wrote:
>>
>>  Says who?
>>>
>> Doh - MX*480*, not MX*80*.  My mistake.
>>
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Thanks,
Morgan