Brocades offering is basically vyatta with some upgrades / tweaks and a massive performance increase with DPDK. Add in a few Chelsio T5 10Gbps or 40Gbps ports and it might be a hell of a platform, as long as you don't need mpls. Juniper vMX does has mpls/vpls support. On Feb 6, 2016 10:24 AM, "Josh Baird" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I looked at vMX months ago. It was far from 'production-ready' in my > opinion, although I think it's finally starting to mature a little bit. > Lack of hypervisor options (no ESX at the time), crappy documentation, and > a general lack of knowledge on the product it's self from Juniper made me > quickly change my mind. The seems to be the general consensus with the > community as well. Cisco's CSR seems to be a much more mature product at > this point. I don't know anything about Brocade's offering. > > For what it's worth, we went with MX104 instead. > > On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 11:14 AM, Josh Reynolds <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I may be looking at some juniper vMX and Brocade vrouter for other >> projects in the near future for low/intermediate routing (10+ Gbps). Both >> use Intel DPDK, similar CLI. >> Most of us aren't buying MX960s. ;-) >> >> >> >> ----- >> Mike Hammett >> Intelligent Computing Solutions <http://www.ics-il.com/> >> <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> >> <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> >> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> >> <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> >> Midwest Internet Exchange <http://www.midwest-ix.com/> >> <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix> >> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange> >> <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> >> The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> >> <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> >> >> >> <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> >> ------------------------------ >> *From: *"Josh Reynolds" <[email protected]> >> *To: *[email protected] >> *Sent: *Saturday, February 6, 2016 9:43:16 AM >> *Subject: *Re: [AFMUG] 10G router(s) with redundancy? >> >> I agree, but that can get very expensive. >> On Feb 6, 2016 9:42 AM, "Mike Hammett" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> The best form of redundancy is two separate units with no dependency on >>> each other. >>> >>> >>> >>> ----- >>> Mike Hammett >>> Intelligent Computing Solutions <http://www.ics-il.com/> >>> <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> >>> <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> >>> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> >>> <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> >>> Midwest Internet Exchange <http://www.midwest-ix.com/> >>> <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix> >>> <https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange> >>> <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> >>> The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> >>> <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> >>> >>> >>> <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> >>> ------------------------------ >>> *From: *"TJ Trout" <[email protected]> >>> *To: *[email protected] >>> *Sent: *Friday, February 5, 2016 5:38:40 PM >>> *Subject: *[AFMUG] 10G router(s) with redundancy? >>> >>> What are some options for 10G capable routers that won't break the bank >>> that have 3+ 10G ports? Was planning two ccr1072 with ibgp but maybe I >>> should be considering something else ? >>> >>> Also what are some models of 10G switches (sfp+) that have 4+ ports? >>> >>> >> >
