CER-RT supports 1.5 million IPv4 in FIB, MX only does 1 million. However the CER-RT uses a slightly slower ram to hold these routes as opposed to TCAM for it's MLX/XMR bigger brothers. I'm not 100% sure what the performance knock for this is as I've not done extensive testing.
Other than that, if you just need an edge box running BGP, it's hard to beat. Generally you'll have a separate BRAS so I don't see that as a problem > Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 10:31:51 +0300 > From: mihaigabr...@gmail.com > To: jjo...@danrj.com > CC: juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net > Subject: Re: [j-nsp] Juniper MX5 vs Brocade CER > > I replaced some months ago a 7600-SUP32 with one Brocade CER2024 and I was > very satisfied about their performance. > > Some features tested by me: bgp. Ospf, ldp, mpls, vrf, eompls, > spanning-tree,ipv6, wire speed 10G ports. > > The olny feature not supported at that time was ipv6 in vrf,but they > promised this will be supported this year. > > On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 5:12 AM, Jerry Jones <jjo...@danrj.com> wrote: > > > Number of 10G ports just knocked the CER out of consideration for a > > customer of mine. > > > > Also if you want to do any services such as BRAS which many 7200 are used > > for, then Juniper is a clear winner. > > > > > > On Oct 21, 2012, at 8:55 PM, Skeeve Stevens < > > skeeve+juniper...@eintellego.net> wrote: > > > > Hey all, > > > > I have a customer asking us about upgrading their border routers. They > > currently use Cisco 7200's. > > > > We obviously have been recommending Juniper, but they've been looking > > around and have come back to us asking us about the Brocade CER200-RT > > units. > > > > By the specs and price, they certainly look good, but they are asking us > > 'why not' ? > > > > So beyond all the website/vendor marketing hype... is there anything that > > people have had experience with that would help me guide them towards > > Juniper? Or are these units just too good to beat? > > > > ...Skeeve > > * > > > > * > > *Skeeve Stevens, CEO - *eintellego Pty Ltd > > ske...@eintellego.net ; www.eintellego.net > > > > Phone: 1300 753 383; Cell +61 (0)414 753 383 ; skype://skeeve > > > > facebook.com/eintellego ; <http://twitter.com/networkceoau> > > linkedin.com/in/skeeve > > > > twitter.com/networkceoau ; blog: www.network-ceo.net > > > > The Experts Who The Experts Call > > Juniper - Cisco – IBM - Cloud > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp
