> > The price gap is even more interesting. > I suppose this depends on your relationship with both companies. Many of the shops that have this buy cisco equipment at a 40% plus discount because of volume, but pay list or nearly so for the Juniper equipment.
> > The things that currently annoy me with Juniper are: > > - JUNOS has been terrible, hopefully 2011 is a better year. > Agreed. JTAC/ATAC hasn't been great either. I'm also nervous about the agressive push to get rid of the ScreenOS firewall platforms and replace them with JunOS and the SRX. > > - Strange and silly hardware restrictions that > inconvenience you when you least expect it, e.g., > lack of Translation Tables support on the MX > DPC's, lack of H-QoS on the current 16-port 10Gbps > MPC card, the need for additional Services PIC's > for certain basic services (I agree that very > advanced services would scale best when offloaded > to dedicated hardware), e.t.c. In all fairness cisco has some similar silliness, although the Juniper version tends to be much more inconvenient and costly. > > - No decent contender to Cisco's ASR1000 platform - > it currently makes no sense for us to invest in > the M7i/M10i boxes, and yet the M120 and MX-series > boxes are too large. I hope this can be rectified > soon. > > This is more of a question, but I always assumed that the ASR overlapped somewhere between the J and M series. The software based routers I associated with the J-series and the larger ASR1000 platforms somewhere in the M/MX area. Is this inaccurate? _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp