[142472] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What do you think about the Juniper MX line?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Mon Jun 27 15:50:24 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <5243148F-B495-4F2E-8FDC-92C35A4FE62F@ooma.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 12:45:22 -0700
To: Howard Hart <Howard.Hart@ooma.com>
Cc: Ryan Finnesey <ryan.finnesey@HarrierInvestments.com>,
"nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Sorry... I misspoke. My comments related to the SRX series and not the =
MX.
The MX is a fine product in my experience.
Owen
On Jun 25, 2011, at 10:03 PM, Howard Hart wrote:
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> We have a couple installed as our edge routers.
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> Pluses - solid as a rock, easy to administer, and will take some =
extremely high packet rates for relatively low cost (important for us =
since we use them for VoIP traffic). If you're approaching the capacity =
of a 1GB uplink, I highly recommend these as your first step to 10 GB.
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> Minuses - careful on your MX80 version. The MX80-48T includes a built =
in 48 port 1 GigE switch, but we've had compatibility issues with it and =
other vendors switches. The modular version that replaces the MX80-48T =
costs quite a bit more, but it does give you a lot more connection and =
compatibility options.
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> Howard Hart
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> On Jun 25, 2011, at 9:37 PM, "Ryan Finnesey" =
<ryan.finnesey@HarrierInvestments.com> wrote:
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>> I would love to know the same I am looking at the MX line as well for =
a
>> new network build-out=20
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>> Cheers
>> Ryan
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Chris [mailto:behrnetworks@gmail.com]=20
>> Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2011 9:29 AM
>> To: nanog@nanog.org
>> Subject: What do you think about the Juniper MX line?
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>> Hello,
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>> I've been doing some research into using the MX line of Juniper =
routers
>> and was interested in hearing people's experiences (the good, bad, =
and
>> ugly). What do you like about them? What do you dislike?
>> Where are you putting them in your network? Where are you not putting
>> them? Why? What other platforms would you consider and why? I hope to
>> hear some candid responses, but feel free to respond privately if you
>> need to.
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>> Thanks!
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