[j-nsp] Juniper vMX

[Josh Baird]

Yes, vMX licenses are based on both application packages and
throughput/bandwidth capacity [1].

[1]
http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/en_US/vmx14.1/topics/concept/vmx-licensing.html

On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 6:04 AM, James Bensley <jwbensley at gmail.com> wrote:

> > From: Josh Reynolds <josh at kyneticwifi.com>
> > Sent: Friday, September 9, 2016 7:41:13 PM
> > To: Alex Valo
> > Cc: Juniper List
> > Subject: Re: [j-nsp] Juniper vMX
> >
> >
> > Disclaimer: I have not used vMX.
> >
> > You might be better off going with something like VyOS/Vyatta. A quad
> core high clock xeon with 8+ GB of RAM and a PCIE ASIC like a Chelsio T420
> (or better) would probably serve you well, and will have a very similar
> syntax.
>
> ...
>
> What makes you say he'd be better off?
>
>
> On 9 September 2016 at 18:48, Alex Valo <alex.valo at outlook.com> wrote:
> > Thank you for your sharing your thought.
> >
> >
> > We also consider a similar product, the Brocade vRouter 5600, which is
> essentially Vyatta with Intel DPDK support and a lot of bug fixes, however,
> we do like Juniper product,
>
>
> vMX does use DPDK so I am quite curious to see how fast it will run, I
> would expect line rate to be honest (I don't know if there are any
> throughput licensing requirements like a Cisco CSR1000v).
>
>
> Cheers,
> James.
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