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

[Colton Conor]

Aaron,

Thanks for the reply. Sounds like you compared the Juniper and Cisco
solutions, and landed on the Juniper ACX 5048. I guess my question is,
besides Juniper and Cisco, are there any other vendors worth looking into
that could realistically compete with the ACX5048? Sounds like your network
today is Cisco and Juniper only for routing which is fine and the standard,
but I am wondering what other options there are in this market.

There are ton's of other plain ethernet switches on the market with this
same Trident II chipset with 48 10G ports and 6 40G ports. But the control
plane and software side is what worries me compared to the Juniper
solution. Lots of whitebox solutions, but not sure if the software is there
from these open source third party network operating systems.

Anything from Ciena, Huawei, ALU, etc? Brocade doesn't have anything in
this price point or port count.

On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 11:11 AM, Aaron <aaron1 at gvtc.com> wrote:

> Hi Colton, first please understand that my motivation was to replace ~40
> cisco me3600’s eventually… we have deployed our cisco me3600’s as mpls pe’s
> with eline, elan, etree in eline pw ldp flavors and bgp ad w/ldp sig vpls
> flavors… and vpnv4/6 (junos speak inet/inet6) for mpls l3vpn’s… we needed
> more 10 gig interfaces as our FTTH subs were consuming lots of bw.  So I
> wanted an mpls edge box about 1 or 2 U high around the same price as the
> ME3600’s it would replace and bunches of 10 gig interface with some 40/100
> gig uplinks if possible.
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> we compared...
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> - Juniper ACX5048 – in lab
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> - Juniper MX104 – in lab
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> - Juniper EX4550 – in lab
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> - Cisco ASR903 – in lab
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> - Cisco ASR9001 – on paper
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> - Cisco ASR903 – in lab
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> - Cisco ASR920 (2 versions – in lab
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> - Cisco NCS5001 (skywarp) – in lab
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> I think the closest thing to the ACX5048 was the Cisco NCS5001…. But it
> was a dog in the lab trial.  Seriously, I had LLDP global config freeze up
> my ssh/telnet sessions… then l2vpn had serious issues and so did l3vpn.
> That ncs5k was not ready from prime time in the state (hw/xr sw) that I had
> it in.
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> We went with the acx5048.  We bought (14) of them
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> I just spent the last few days testing various mpls l2vpn architectures so
> that I can confidently proceed with installing them.  (I was told they
> support lots of stuff and I proved out **some** of it last fall, but I
> needed to get more experience on it… now I feel a bit better with the
> eline, elan, etree ideas if have now introducing the acx5048 into my mpls
> cloud with other 9k’s and me3600’s.
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> Are there other mpls pe’s out there on the market ?  probably so…. I
> didn’t have time to test them all
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> -Aaron
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