[j-nsp] EX4550 or QFX5100 for Core

[Mark Tinka]

On 3/Aug/18 16:39, Giovanni Bellac via juniper-nsp wrote:

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> We want to keep simplicity in and therefore want to use VC. We are pushing some Gbit/s from Rack-to-Rack (backups) and to our two upstreams around 500-600Mbit/s.
> QFX5100 hardware seems to be MUCH better than EX4550 hardware. The ARP table size, hash table size etc. on EX4550 is relatively small.

Watch out for small buffers (4MB shared) on the EX4550.

Mark.