[j-nsp] MX480

[craig washington]

Same here with the juniper recommendation, they have recommend the Golden release 16.1R7 for us also

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> On Jun 16, 2018, at 2:59 PM, Saku Ytti <saku at ytti.fi> wrote:
> 
> Hey,
> 
>> Wait for a golden release, ask JTAC about the next golden release coming
>> out.  Maybe 17.3R2 or R3.  They will be highly tested and classified as
>> very safe for production use immediately.
> 
> I usually mature my images on SCSI spindles on VAX machines for at
> least two year to really bring out the stableness.
> 
> Real talk, Juniper has done significant work on rebasing the JunOS on
> single branch with compelling testing story, I believe their story, I
> believe newer JunOS are better. And generally stability is very
> situational, release having 1 bug affecting you greatly is far worse
> image to you, than image having 1M bugs not affecting you.
> I exercise similar methodology for all vendors
> 
> a) start with latest long term supported image
> b) test to see it's not obviously broken, if it is obviously broken,
> contact vendor for assistance
> c) if not obviously broken, deploy
> d) when you need new features, restart the process, when you need bug
> fixes install rebuild
> 
> Long term:
> 
> a) ask vendor to report you quarterly in which phase of development
> they found bugs and how much
> b) use that information to choose vendors who are getting better
> according the metrics, i.e. finding issues earlier in the process
> 
> We need to make good testing story economic necessity. I know some
> vendor testing initiatives have been shot down, when there has not
> been any external pressure to invest on the work. So we can achieve
> lot of good, if we are asking vendors to report the right things to
> us.
> I think in last two years all vendors are getting lot better in this.
> If I had to guess, I don't think it's the networking folk we get to
> thank here, I think it's the software focused shops who are asking for
> the right data from vendors. We should join them.
> 
> -- 
>  ++ytti
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