Don’t forget power costs in all of these... Neil
Sent from my iPhone > On 6 Mar 2018, at 15:52, Simon Lockhart <[email protected]> wrote: > > All, > > Does anyone have any experience of the Juniper MX10003 and/or MX204? I’ve > always been a Cisco person for core network, and had been looking at ASR9k as > a 100G upgrade path for our core - but the MX10003 is coming in at under half > the price of an equivalent ASR9000 build. Equally, I’d been looking at the > ASR9901 as a border router upgrade, but the MX204 is stupidly cheap in > comparison. > > The one thing we’ve found from reading the spec sheets is that both routers > have more ports than the ASICs can support, so if you want to use the lower > speed ports you have to give up one or more of the 100G ports - but this > seems well documented and easy to work with. > > Any other gotchas that people are aware of? The Juniper sales pitch is > compelling, but I’ve not used them before to know what to be looking out for. > > Many thanks, > > Simon
