[j-nsp] small service provider j router

[adamv0025 at netconsultings.com]

> From: sthaug at nethelp.no [mailto:sthaug at nethelp.no]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2017 9:30 AM
> 
> > I hear people complaining about the price difference between cisco and
> > juniper, I can only talk about the SP domain, but what I noticed is
> > that engineers don't realize that there's a reason for the price
difference.
> > Or do you really believe juniper can deliver the same performance and
> > functionality or do as much R&D as cisco but do it cheaper? Well no,
> > while pushing down the price they had to do some architectural
sacrifices.
> 
> I don't believe your POV regarding Juniper vs Cisco is universally shared.
> 
> Speaking only for myself - in several companies where I have worked we
> have used Juniper because it delivered *better* performance and/or
> functionality.
> 
> Obviously this will be dependent on requirements. YMMV.
> 
I agree, it's very much dependent on the requirements, speaking from an SP
angle it really boils down to your customer base and their requirements on
services you provide (in other words how tight the SLAs needs to be). 

Regarding my POV, 
I'd say it's a minor one actually, cause honestly who has time to understand
architectural differences between various generations of NPUs/PFEs and how
those affect the suitability of the platform for a given project, or even
how routers work in general and there're no fancy certificates rewarding
this specific knowledge anyways.

Nuf of me ranting, bottom line is I should not have generalized, I agree
there's no universal bad/good performance.  


adam


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