[j-nsp] Going Juniper

[James Harrison]

On 11/04/2018 10:51, James Bensley wrote:
> I would agree with
> you that low port coun't, good, and reasonably priced mixed 1G/10G
> devices aren't plentiful in choice from vendors. We open a lot of
> small PoPs so stuff like ME3600X/ASR920s, ASR9001, MX104 are great for
> us but each with their own caveats.

Particularly if you include the requirement for temperature hardening -
we deploy a lot of street cabinet sites, and MX104s and ASR902s are
basically the only boxes in town that have reasonable 10G density and a
sensible temperature range for external boxes. We don't need the full
capability of a 104 (and feature-wise the 920 and 902s are chock full of
unfortunate compromises) but sadly the higher bandwidth stuff based
around x86 and BRCM silicon isn't yet entering the temp-hardened space.

We have a few 104s out in prod doing fairly basic bits of EVPN and
they're very capable boxes - just pricey for the ports we need.

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Cheers,
James Harrison