Very helpful opinion. Any suggestion of small scale MPLS switch/router which has Multi-VRF and NAT capability ? We just have small number of customers, so we just need small number of virtual routers.
Thank you. > Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 11:46:11 -0500 > From: Robert Boyle <robert at tellurian.com> > Subject: Re: [f-nsp] Significan Differents Between NetIron MLX dam > NetIron XMR > To: "Lazuardi Nasution" <mrxlazuardin at gmail.com>, > foundry-nsp at puck.nether.net > Message-ID: <1196613972_83684 at mail1.tellurian.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed > > At 11:11 AM 12/2/2007, Lazuardi Nasution wrote: > >I couldn't found any significan differents between NetIron MLX dam > >NetIron XMR. It seems very identic on specification and with very > >little different of price. Any idea of the different ? > > There isn't much difference in price and they run the same software > images. However, in my personal opinion, you should buy the XMR. It > will hold twice the number of routes and although we are at over 250k > Internet routes today and the MLX will hold 512k (approx dependent on > how you slice up MPLS/IPv4/IPv6) routes and the XMR will hold approx > 1 million routes, the XMR will be usable for a longer time. This is > due to a larger CAM on all line cards and more RAM in the management > modules. You cannot upgrade an MLX to be an XMR. We have the XMRs and > have been very happy with them. We evaluated an MLX box in the > beginning, but bought the XMR. > > -Robert
