[j-nsp] Transfer some task from MX to VRR

[Robert Hass]

They're both different products.

VRR is already available. It's pure control-plane without forwarding-plane.
Let's something like JCS1200 but for own Hypervisor deployment.
vMX is full featured router with same control-plane as VRR have. Same like
Cisco CSR 1000V or Brocade vRouter 5400/5600.

So VRR == vMX without forwarding-plane. Maybe cost wise VRR will be cheaper
than vMX, don't know. We will see in Q1 2015 when vMX should be available.

Rob



On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Mark Tinka <mark.tinka at seacom.mu> wrote:

> On Monday, December 01, 2014 04:41:54 PM Robert Hass wrote:
>
> > vMX indeed will be full-featured router. But my questions
> > was related to move part of control-plane (basically
> > whole BGP part of rpd) to external server. Maybe
> > OpenFlow somehow helps here ? How openflow take care of
> > eBGP to customers ? Session should be on router or on
> > OpenFlow controller ? OF v1.3 just has been implemented
> > in JunOS 14.x releases for MX series.
>
> That's a little too cutting edge (even) for me :-).
>
> My guess is vRR is a function of vMX. No point in having two
> products. I could be wrong...
>
> Mark.
>