[j-nsp] EX4550 L2Circuit/VPN to MX80/lt Interface

[philxor at gmail.com]

The ALU 7210 line is very similar to the 3600X and 920.  24x1G and 2x10G or 4x10G, support full MPLS, L2VPN, L3VPN, CES.   I’ve posted about them before, we have thousands of them deployed in MPLS rings.   They have a 2.5RU modular one now with 6 slots with 2x10G, 10x1G, and 1/10 combo modules.  Its not all that impressive but will do 6x10G and 60x1G and has redundant control boards.


I agree that Juniper never really pursued the market, the MX isn't a great fit and the ACX/BX are underwhelming.  


Phil






From: Mark Tinka
Sent: ‎Wednesday‎, ‎November‎ ‎12‎, ‎2014 ‎3‎:‎53‎ ‎PM
To: Eric Van Tol
Cc: mh at xalto.net, juniper-nsp at puck.nether.net List





On Wednesday, November 12, 2014 05:38:54 PM Eric Van Tol 
wrote:

> ME3600X is wonderful, but very expensive once you get the
> full feature set.

Agree.

> We are waiting (rather impatiently at
> this point) for our first ASR920 to arrive to test out. 
> This is supposed to be the replacement for the ME3400,
> but with MPLS.  It fits us nicer than the ME3600X, as
> the footprint is much smaller and there are various
> models for port density.

Interesting.

I'm speaking with the SPAG BU on this platform, to see where 
it falls short of (or outperforms) the ME3600X/3800X.

> Odd - we tried to engage ALU and they said all their gear
> is layer-2 only.  They were supposed to come to our
> office for a meet-and-greet, but never came.  This is
> the second time we've tried to engage them with no
> success.  Guess they are not interested in our business.

ALU have some pretty good routers, actually. Their 7xxx 
series routers and switches are up there with the best. In 
fact, I find their subscriber management solutions to be 
quite interesting compared to Cisco and Juniper.

I did some testing at their lab in Antwerp a few months ago, 
and was mighty impressed with some of the work they've done 
in mobile to wi-fi hand-off. Very good boxes and solutions, 
to be honest.

It's just that in the metro, they still don't have anything 
close to the ME3600X (or ASR920).

> Agreed.  ACX is just not there.  It baffles me why
> Juniper has left this market untapped.  The mid-range MX
> is just too expensive and too big for our deployments
> and the lack of LSR functionality in the EX won't work
> for us.

Back when the MX80 was launching (c. 2009), I was speaking 
to the Juniper folk heading the project, and they promised a 
1U MX80 with 20x or 40x Gig-E ports, and 2x or 4x 10Gbps 
uplinks, with all MX software features.

How I still wish for such a box.

Mark.