[j-nsp] Understanding limitations of various MX104 bundles

Olivier Benghozi olivier.benghozi at wifirst.fr
Fri Jan 5 10:21:25 EST 2018


MX204 is probably not that expensive compared to a fully licensed MX104, I guess.
And while MX204 doesn't have RE redundancy, it supports NSR so I understand it runs two JunOS VMs in a Windriver Linux as hypervisor, I guess.

> On 5 janv. 2018 à 15:54, Edward Dore <edward.dore at freethought-internet.co.uk> wrote :
> 
> The MX204 seems to be amazing value for money if it has the right port combination for your workload (i.e. not great if you need lots of 1GE). The RE is also significantly more capable than the somewhat underpowered one in the MX104.
> 
> For our use case (border router terminating peering/transit), having dual RE isn’t particularly important as we achieve our redundancy using separate routers. YMMV.
> 
> From: Josh Baird <joshbaird at gmail.com>
> Date: Friday, 5 January 2018 at 14:42
> 
> I believe this is what we are finding as well, which is unfortunate.  Maybe we should look at the MX204 instead?  Although, it's 2X the cost (MSRP) and only has one RE.  



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