[j-nsp] EX4600 Vs QFX 5100 VS ACX 5048

[Aaron]

I recently purchased several ACX5048's and am testing and deploying them as
we speak...all in all, I'm pleased thus far.  This is pretty much my first
experience with Juniper/MPLS devices.

I got a working scenario as of yesterday of EVPLAN (MEF-speak for ELAN with
tagging on PE-CE handoff)...(basically VPLS Routing Instance with BGP AD and
LDP Sig) the JTAC was helpful in understanding the PE-CE Junos Ethernet tag
push/pop I needed.  This is interoperating with IOS XR (asr9k) and Classic
IOS (ME3600).  One glitch was noticed but it might be a subtlety during
service activation/change, but was also only seen on the 9k XR side as a
down'd psuedowire... (j)tac cases are in the works to understand why that
occurred.  Other than that acx5048, me3600, asr9k are working in a RFC4762
VPLS scenario.

I will say that JTAC did not know how to do this right away... it took them
a day or more to figure it out.  JTAC said that this ACX5048 platform is
fairly new and they are learning it as well.  (this was the person I talked
to anyway)

I have a working scenario with MPLS L3VPN on the ACX5048 also... inet-vpn...
this is also interop'ing just fine with ME3600 and ASR9k...

I did a brief test with ELINE (mef speak for p-to-p pw) and seemed ok

I have a few more things I need to test, but at this point I've been pleased
with the ACX5048.

I love the (48) 10 gig interfaces (6) 40 gig in a 1U size !

- Aaron

-----Original Message-----
From: juniper-nsp [mailto:juniper-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of
Jerry Jones
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2016 1:07 PM
To: Colton Conor <colton.conor at gmail.com>
Cc: Juniper List <juniper-nsp at puck.nether.net>
Subject: Re: [j-nsp] EX4600 Vs QFX 5100 VS ACX 5048

The ACX has many more MPLS and CE features compared to the QFX.


On Apr 29, 2016, at 11:35 AM, Colton Conor <colton.conor at gmail.com> wrote:

Besides port count and expansion modules, what is the main differences
between these three Juniper switches (actually Juniper has the ACX under
their router section on their website). I believe all three use Broadcom
Trident II chips.

This Juniper doc says:

Even though QFX5100 and EX4600 Switches use the same chipset, MPLS support
differs.EX4600 switches support only basic MPLS functionality while QFX5100
switches support some of the more advanced features. See "MPLS Feature
Support on QFX Series and EX4600 Switches" on page 17 for details.
http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/en_US/junos14.1/information-products/pathway
-pages/ex4600/mpls.pdf

The ACX seems interesting. I know it is MEF 2.0 certified while the other
two are not. Besided MEF certification I would like to know how it differs
from the QFX5100 as the port count is identical.

Does anyone have experience with these three platforms?
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