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

[Colton Conor]

Aaron,

Thanks for the information and real world examples. Great to hear you got
Cisco and Juniper to work together as well. Sounds like you had Cisco in
your network today, and are adding Juniper. What was the business case or
reason for this? Is it because Cisco does not have a similar MEF 10G 1U
box? If they do I am not aware what model it is. Most are recommending an
ASR920, but that only has like 4 10G interfaces.

On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 3:06 PM, Aaron <aaron1 at gvtc.com> wrote:

> 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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