[j-nsp] Cisco ASR 9001 vs Juniper MX104

[James Bensley]

On 1 December 2015 at 14:14, Mark Tinka <mark.tinka at seacom.mu> wrote:
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> On 1/Dec/15 15:03, john doe wrote:
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>> I think price wise MX is a better deal. ASR fully loaded with cards and licences for various services gets expensive fast.
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> Depends what cards you are loading in there.
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> If you're packing an ASR1000 with Ethernet line cards, then you get what
> you deserve.
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> If you need dense Ethernet aggregation, the ASR9000 and MX are better
> than the ASR1000.
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> If you need a mix-and-match, the ASR1000 is better than the ASR9000 or MX.

With the exception of LAGs (IMO) as port-channels on the ASR1000
series does not support QoS very well at all on them;

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/qos_mqc/configuration/xe-3s/qos-mqc-xe-3s-book/qos-eth-int.html#GUID-95630B2A-986E-4063-848B-BC0AB7456C44


Cheers,
James.