I'm only seeing 64-bit Junos available for MX240 and up And they already have hugely powerful x86 REs as options.
On Thursday 23 April 2015 12:54:34 Eduardo Schoedler wrote: > There is a 64-bit version of junos, someone already tested? > > Regards, > > 2015-04-23 12:49 GMT-03:00 Raphael Mazelier <[email protected]>: > > Le 23/04/15 15:13, Saku Ytti a écrit : > >> Yeah at least 10k has XEON. I don't really understand why vendors use > >> PPC, is > >> it mainly motivated by BOM or pincount/thermal or some other issues? > > > > Yes on cheap boxes, ppc processor still have a good power/price ratio. > > The real problem is the performance of junos on ppc. > > It can be acceptable on cheap switch (like the EX series), but not on MX. > > > > But yeah, JunOS relies on terrific single thread performance, but unsure > > > >> how > >> long they can get away with it. > > > > Juniper is aware of this problem, and work on this. Junos 15 should have > > limited smp capabilities (afaik rpd will still not be multi-thread). > > > > For some reason, IOS with equivalent CPU is much faster to converge. > > > > Cisco have made the effort to rewrite their os (and not only once, ios15, > > ios-xr, nxos, etc...). Juniper should make the same, and rewrite junos > > from > > scratch in my opinion, and I think the monolithic design of rpd should be > > rethinked. > > > > > > Regards, > > > > -- > > Raphael Mazelier > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] > > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp -- Mike Williams _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp
