We've been using Juniper M/T series in service provider scenarios for a couple of years now, and really like them. As part of an equipment life cycle refresh, we're considering replacing our core (campus enterprise) network with something in the MX series; a la this post:
http://marc.info/?l=juniper-nsp&m=122008030004203&w=1 We are very "glass is half empty" on our evals; while it seems most are pretty happy with the MX boxen, I'm trying to find something show-stopper that would make us go with another product. We're wanting basically a campus Ethernet version of an M/T box and all that that implies (besides just shoveling packets at a non-blocking line rate, we'd like full MPLS and RSVP/TE support, L2/L3 VPN, multicast, IPv6, lawful intercept, etc), so I'm curious if anyone's demo'ed an MX box as a campus core router and tested everything but the kitchen sink and found something that Juniper says "works great", but in actual practice just isn't quite there yet. Basically, can someone give me reasons apart from "we don't need SONET or any other WAN interfaces, and it's cheaper per port", why should we NOT choose an MX box? Are there any gotchas waiting in the wings for someone who's used to the full flavored goodness that is the M/T series? _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp
