[177353] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Recommended L2 switches for a new IXP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Tantsura)
Tue Jan 13 17:11:06 2015
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From: Jeff Tantsura <jeff.tantsura@ericsson.com>
To: Eduardo Schoedler <listas@esds.com.br>, NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 22:10:56 +0000
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What does it mean - to be SDN ready?
Cheers,
Jeff
-----Original Message-----
From: Eduardo Schoedler <listas@esds.com.br>
Date: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 at 3:25 AM
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Subject: Re: Recommended L2 switches for a new IXP
>QFX5100 is SDN ready.
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>Eduardo Schoedler
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>2015-01-13 6:29 GMT-02:00 Stepan Kucherenko <twh@megagroup.ru>:
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>> Is there any particular reason you prefer EX4600 over QFX5100 ? Not
>> counting obvious differences like ports and upgrade options.
>>
>> It's the same chipset after all, and with all upgrades they have the
>> same 10G density (with breakouts). Is that because you can have more 40G
>> ports with EX4600 ?
>>
>> I'm still trying to find out if there are any noticeable software or
>> feature differences.
>>
>> On 13.01.2015 09:01, Mark Tinka wrote:
>> > On Monday, January 12, 2015 11:41:20 PM Tony Wicks wrote:
>> >
>> >> People seem to be avoiding recommending actual devices,
>> >> well I would recommend the Juniper EX4600 -
>> >>
>> >> http://www.juniper.net/us/en/products-services/switching/
>> >> ex-series/ex4600/
>> >>
>> >> They are affordable, highly scalable, stackable and run
>> >> JunOS.
>> >
>> > We've been quite happy with the EX4550, but the EX4600 is
>> > good too, particularly if you're coming from its younger
>> > brother.
>> >
>> > Mark.
>> >
>>
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>--=20
>Eduardo Schoedler
