On Monday, April 01, 2013 05:44:59 PM Pavel Lunin wrote: > Well, I'd also really like to have a Juniper box > competing against Catalyst ME, but, again, I believe > there might be (I don't say "there is") some common > sense in not even trying to play this game. I can easily > imagine sane reasons for which they decided to spend > money and time on ACX (PTX, QFabric, WiFi) instead of > just trying to catch up Cisco, Extreeme and others in > the straightforward ME game.
I think if Juniper have decided to consciously not play in this space, that's fine by me. A lot of folk are gung-ho on having a single vendor do everything for them. I prefer to have multiple vendors wherever I can; this just means that for the most part, Cisco will win my business for Metro-E deployments, which is not something I'm entirely happy with, but can live with. Others who are Juniper 100% of the way may not be as pleased, but I guess they'll either pay more to stick with Juniper, or be forced to deploy boxes they would never like to see. To each his own. > It's really interesting, that you say 2RU is too much for > MX80. I never heard such a claim from a customer. At > least, it's never been a serious problem. Much more > often they ask whether it fits into a 60 cm deep rack > and how much power it eats. I think, the lack of this > requirement comes from completely different economics of > real estate, access networks structure and all. In many > countries (where telecom markets are emerging) access > network is often an interconnection of places like this: > http://nag.ru/upload/images/20519/1877875733.jpeg In a > hell I'd put there something closely priced to MX5, be > it 1 or 2 RU height :) So people often come up using > something extremely cheap in the PoPs (don't even think > "MPLS") and aggregate them in a location, where 1 or 2 > RU doesn't make much difference. In many deployments I've made, the rack space can also be an issue. In many places, power isn't the only premium in data centres. Mark.
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