The big difference is that the J series routes everything through the Intel CPU. They do some trick daemon scheduling to get the best packet rate out of them but it's still a software router. -- Joe Hamelin, W7COM, Tulalip, WA, 360-474-7474
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Keegan Holley <keegan.hol...@sungard.com> wrote: > I've always thought of the J-Series as an enterprise/remote site router and > not a service provider device. Strangely enough I can't find the throughput > ratings on the data sheet, but I'm sure it's lower than the M/MX and the > like. I'm not sure if it can handle 2-3G of traffic, you should ask the > reseller for specs or search juniper.net. The other thing I noticed was > that it only supports a max of 400k BGP routes. If the full table is 340 > or so that doesn't leave much for L2/L3 vrf's. Just my 2c. > > > On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Richard Zheng <rzh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> A juniper reseller came back with a suggestion of J-4350. The price is >> similar to a used M7i. I was surprised by this option first. Then >> considering that the application is for a small ISP, it might not be bad. >> The DRAM may be upgraded to 2G which should hold several whole Internet >> tables for quite a while. >> >> Any comment? >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Richard Zheng <rzh...@gmail.com> >> Date: Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 8:09 AM >> Subject: router recommendation >> To: juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net >> >> >> Hi, >> >> I'd like to have some recommendation of a router model. It is for a small >> ISP. There are 2 or 3 upstreams which feeds the whole Internet routing >> table. Total about 20 peering sessions. The traffic is about 2-3G in 12 >> months. Right now we only care about Internet. But if it can scale to >> support layer 2 and/or layer 3 VPN services, that's a big plus. >> >> We have dealt with M20 about 4-5 years ago. I am looking at M7i or M10i. >> Not >> sure if I am on the right path. >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> Richard >> _______________________________________________ >> juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net >> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp > _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp