[j-nsp] ACX5448 & ACX710 - Update!

[Baldur Norddahl]

I am planning to deploy ACX710 with maybe 20 units (which for us is a huge
number). We would have ordered DC in any case, so that is a non issue. We
will have them at CO buildings were DC is what you get and maybe in the
future in road side cabinets, where DC is the easy way to have some battery
backup.

I am also going to get a few ACX5448 for our datacentre locations. I am
still considering getting some AC to DC powersupplies for the ACX710
because the cost saving is considerable. It is not like finding AC to DC
devices is hard - every laptop comes with one (yea I know too little
voltage).

Our purpose is to replace our MPLS core with new gear that has deep buffers
and better support for traffic engineering etc. These will be P and PE
routers mostly doing L2VPN. We will have a 100G ring topology of ACX710
devices moving MPLS packets and terminating L2VPN.

Seems to be a perfect fit to me. I am not interested in the older ACX
devices which lacks buffers and is probably not much better than the gear
we want to replace.

Regards

Baldur


ons. 29. jul. 2020 16.25 skrev Mark Tinka <mark.tinka at seacom.com>:

>
>
> On 29/Jul/20 15:49, Eric Van Tol wrote:
> > We ran into this, too. We signed up to beta test at the beginning of
> this year and nowhere, not even in discussions with our SE (who also wasn't
> told by Juniper), was it mentioned it was a DC-only device. Imagine my
> surprise when I received the box and it was DC only. Such a disappointment.
>
> The messaging we got from them earlier in the year about trying out
> their new Metro-E box was that we would be happy with it, considering
> that every Metro-E solution they've thrown at us since 2008 has fallen
> flat, splat!
>
> Come game-time, even our own SE was blindsided by this DC-only support
> on the ACX710. Proper show-stopper.
>
> At any rate, the story is that they should be pushing out some new
> ACX7xxx boxes from next year, which should have AC support (to you
> psych. majors: more for the general public, and not the custom-built
> ACX710).
>
> I'm not sure I can be that patient, so I'm sniffing at Nokia's new
> Metro-E product line. The problem is so far, as with Juniper and Cisco,
> they've gone down the Broadcom route (some boxes shipping with Qumran,
> others with Jericho 2, and on-paper, they are already failing some of
> our forwarding requirements.
>
> It's not easy...
>
> Mark.
>
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