[148731] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: juniper mx80 vs cisco asr 1000
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Josh Hoppes)
Fri Jan 20 18:23:52 2012
In-Reply-To: <20120120215445.GA17687@pob.ytti.fi>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:23:02 -0600
From: Josh Hoppes <josh.hoppes@gmail.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I certainly agree they have very different applications, and hopefully
that will help those looking for this kind of insight.
On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Saku Ytti <saku@ytti.fi> wrote:
> On (2012-01-20 09:50 -0700), PC wrote:
>
>> Juniper has some very aggressive pricing on mx80 bundles license-locked =
to
>> 5gb, which are cheaper and blow the performance specifications of the
>> equivalent low end ASR1002 out of the water for internet edge BGP
>> applications. =A0Unlike the ASR, a simple upgrade license can unlock the
>> boxes full potential.
>
> ASR1002 list price is 18kUSD, MX5 list price is 29.5kUSD. Upgrade license
> for MX5 -> MX80 literally costs more than new MX80 (with all but jflow
> license, two psu and 20SFP MIC)
>
> Sure MX5 will do line rate on 20 SFP ports, vastly more than ASR1002, but
> this is little consolation if you need high touch services such as NAPT,
> IPSEC etc. So applications for these boxes are quite different.
>
> --
> =A0++ytti
>
