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

[Ben Dale]

The QFX3600 is probably a little expensive for L2, but 64x 10GE ports in a 1RU ToR (or 16x 40GE, or a combination in the middle) is pretty solid.  

According to the docs they also support link aggregation up to 32 members[1].  Would be interesting to know if this allows 40GE ports to be used natively in an aggregated ethernet...

[1] http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/en_US/junos12.3/topics/reference/general/qfx-series-software-features-overview.html#high-availability-features-by-platform-table

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> On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Morgan McLean <wrx230 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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
>>>> To: juniper-nsp Puck
>>>> Subject: Re: [j-nsp] Advice on a 100Gbps+ environment
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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
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