On Friday, June 03, 2011 10:10:04 AM Richard A Steenbergen wrote: > Price aside, anyone who wants a 12U RE needs to have > their head examined. :) How freaking hard can it be to > take an off-the-shelf 1U PC, slap a Juniper logo on the > front, mark it up 20x like everything else, and sell it > to us as a fully supported RR? I'm still confused how > this has managed to escape their attention.
I tend to agree - it simply doesn't make sense. We looked at them and ended up buying M120's for this simply because the cheaper options from Cisco didn't support the MCAST-MVPN AFI we needed. We considered a combination of M7i's + 7201's, but it does present its own set of soft, operational hassles. The M7i's alone wouldn't have been enough since it can only do 1.5GB of RAM (and less, effectively, if you include Junos's own requirements and other shared memory bits). However, now that there's a new RE coming out for the M7i/M10i, maybe it would be worth considering as a proper route reflector from Juniper in the future. On the Cisco side, the new ASR1001 would make a fine route reflector. 16GB of control plane memory is certainly enough to tickle anyone. But we can only consider it if Cisco add support for the extra AFI's that we need. FIB-wise, the ASR1001 is restricted to 512,000 IPv4 entries (which baffles my mind), but that shouldn't be an issue if it's a dedicated route reflector, although troubleshooting from the box could be difficult if you see the route in the BGP RIB, but the router can't get to it. Decisions, decisions. Cheers, Mark.
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