Thank you! Very useful Certainly i have concerns about the software as well
On Wed, Aug 7, 2019 at 8:35 PM Brandon Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > On 8/7/19 11:02 PM, Mehmet Akcin wrote: > > I am looking for some suggestions on alternatives to mx204. > > > > Any recommendations on something more affordable which can handle full > > routing tables from two providers? > > > > Prefer Juniper but happy to look alternatives. > > Min 6-8 10G ports are required > > 1G support required > > Extreme (ex Brocade) SLX9540 will do full tables from a couple providers > in a local edge scenario with their "OptiScale" FIB optimization/route > caching, but the whole FIB won't fit in hardware. Bandwidth is very > generous (up to 48x10G + 6x100G), and prices are reasonable. You > wouldn't need any of the stupid port licenses, just the advanced feature > license, so it should be about 25-40% more than an MX204 based on public > pricing I've seen. That would get you 24x10G + 24x1G (the rest of the > hardware is all there just locked out). > > The SLX9650 will supposedly (if marketing and my SEs are to believed) do > 4M IPv4 in hardware FIB, less if you want IPv6, too but still full > tables of both with ample room for L2 MACs, next-hops, and MPLS. > Bandwidth is, well, "Extreme" at I think 24x25G + 12x100G (25G breakout > capable, all 25G also capable of 1G/10G). Pricing is supposedly "about > double" a 9540. > > Be advised that the control plane SOFTWARE is NOT as mature as JunOS. > It's being built up rapidly, but there's still a lot of stuff missing. > I have not, so far, run into any of the weird glitches that I've seen on > older Foundry/Brocade products, though, so that's good. There's also no > oddball restrictions about port provisioning like the MX204 has. > Control plane HARDWARE is well more than capable with something like > 16GB (or maybe 32?) of RAM and a Xeon CPU. There's actually a fully > supported option for a guest VM for local analytics, SDN, etc. in remote > scenarios. > > If you just want to push packets, they're nice boxes. If you want "high > touch" service provider features, I think you may find them lacking. > They're worth looking at, though, if only because of the > price/performance ratio. > > Arista has some similar boxes with similar caveats in terms of infantile > software. > > MX204 is a very nice pizza box router for service providers. I'm not > aware of anything quite like it in terms of having a mature control > plane. I like the JunOS config language better than Cisco-style that > most other folks use. > -- > Brandon Martin > -- Mehmet +1-424-298-1903
