[34621] in North American Network Operators' Group
Juniper M series/Cisco GSR comparison
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Correll, Matthew)
Wed Feb 14 13:22:56 2001
From: "Correll, Matthew" <mcorrell@thrupoint.net>
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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 11:20:17 -0700
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I'm sure I've missed something on this in the past, but I'm looking for
objective sources for a comparitive analysis between Juniper's M10
and/or M20 routers and Cisco's GSR 12000 series. Specifically, I'm
interested in the pros/cons of deploying each of these boxes at an
AS boundary in a large service provider network.
Some areas of particular interest to me include:
1. Fault Tolerance - Ability to recover from hardware component failures
2. BGP Robustness - Ability to process high levels of BGP updates
without affecting forwarding performance; stability of routing
code; interoperability between vendor implementations
3. CoS features - performance during congestion; results of different
queueing and congestion control approaches
4. Interface performance - performance of individual line cards (OC-12
and OC-48 PoS)
5. Total system performance - aggregate switching capacity results
under load
I'm not looking for opinions or vendor bias - only documented testing
done by reliable (and hopefully objective) sources.
Thanks
Matt Correll
