[j-nsp] MX960 with 3 RE's?

[Colton Conor]

Well it would be RE-S-2000-4096 running the JTAC Recommended Junos Software
Version Junos 13.3R8 plus the standard (not enhanced SCBs).

I know more memory and 64 bit is usually better, but how does this help in
Junos? From past threads, we have concluded that Junos is currently single
thread/core in most all situations, and the RE-S-2000-4096 is faster than
the RE in a MX80 and MX104. What does the more cores and quadruple memory
get you in the RE-S-1800X4-16G that you can not do on a RE-S-2000-4096?

The use case for this box would be full BGP tables and routing with 4+
providers on 10G ports, plus a couple of ports to a peering exchange. I am
wondering what features the DPC's lack in this situation.

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 4:11 PM, Tom Storey <tom at snnap.net> wrote:

> On 13 January 2016 at 22:32, Mark Tinka <mark.tinka at seacom.mu> wrote:
> > A more current RE means you can run more recent Junos releases. I
> > haven't run the RE-S-2000 in a while, so not sure how well it's
> > supported by current Junos releases (someone else who has the older RE's
> > might want to chime in).
>
> Guess it depends how old an RE you are talking about, and how recent JunOS?
>
> Have seen RE-S-2000's running 13.3.
>