[j-nsp] RE-S-X6-64G-BB

[Adam Vitkovsky]

> Phil Rosenthal
> Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2016 5:53 PM
>
>
> > On May 25, 2016, at 12:31 PM, Colton Conor <colton.conor at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Assuming we are not going to be using these new RE's to load any 3rd
> > party software on them, the RE-S-X6-64G-BB will just be a quicker
> > processor with more ram compared to an older RE right? Are there any
> other benefits?
> > Juniper is offering the RE-S-X6-64G-BB for the same price as the
> > RE-S-1800X4-32G. Not sure why one would not go with the new RE with
> > more ram?
>
> This new RE requires Junos 15.1R4 minimum.  If you have a reason to use 14.x
> or 13.x, then this RE will not work for you.
>
>
> > On May 25, 2016, at 10:34 AM, Saku Ytti <saku at ytti.fi> wrote:
> >
> > I don't see those corner cases as particularly useful. I can't help to
> > wonder, is VM a white-label play in disguise? Are some customers not
> > running IOS-XR/JunOS at all, just not starting that VM, instead
> > running own VM with under NDA documents how to program the
> hardware?
> > Or is the 3rd party VM just marketing gimmick, because they get VM
> > 'for free', as they need it for their own infrastructure, to provide
> > better redundancy, upgradability and loose coupling to underlaying
> > control-plane HW. So as it is going to be there anyhow, no harm done
> > investing some marketing efforts to see if market figures out if there
> > is application for 3rd party VMs.
>
> I would bet money on this being the case. I would assume that a certain
> company that has a large search engine is of the general opinion "We like the
> hardware, but we do not want to use your software in any way. We can write
> our own software."
>
Yup, I think that's the main driver behind this initiative, they are trying to win back the white-box market share. Although it's the DC division that got the major hit so would have expected the 3rd party VMs making it into flagship switching products first.



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