[j-nsp] Going Juniper

[Ola Thoresen]

On 11. april 2018 12:51, Saku Ytti wrote:

> On 11 April 2018 at 13:43, Ola Thoresen <ola at nytt.no> wrote:
>
>
>> We have recently started playing with MX204 and Junos Fusion, and that makes
>> a really nice setup.
>> With either EX4300 (for 1G) or QFX5100 (for 10G), you get a lot of ports and
>> a great routing engine for a "decent" cost.
> I have strong dislike to satellite solutions. I'd rather even run L2
> backhaul than satellite. There tends to be all kind of catches and
> esoteric differences between 'native' port and satellite port, and
> those are not documented anywhere, probably not even known to vendor,
> and you just stumble on them as you go. As well as you have to carry
> the increased bug surface of the vendor's proprietary host<->satellite
> code.
>
> Granted at least JNPR offering allows you to run same device as pure
> L2, with Cisco offering it is satellite-only box, cannot be used as
> L2.

I know what you mean, but I must say that this time it seems like they 
have more or less managed to do it right.  They use pretty standard 
protocols for everything, it is just "packaged" so you don't need to 
think about it.

But as you say, you can easily use the exact same hardware in a regular 
L2 setup, the thing you gain from the satellite setup is central 
management of only the routers, which can be a time and management saver.

/Ola (T)