On Wednesday, November 12, 2014 05:38:54 PM Eric Van Tol wrote: > ME3600X is wonderful, but very expensive once you get the > full feature set.
Agree. > We are waiting (rather impatiently at > this point) for our first ASR920 to arrive to test out. > This is supposed to be the replacement for the ME3400, > but with MPLS. It fits us nicer than the ME3600X, as > the footprint is much smaller and there are various > models for port density. Interesting. I'm speaking with the SPAG BU on this platform, to see where it falls short of (or outperforms) the ME3600X/3800X. > Odd - we tried to engage ALU and they said all their gear > is layer-2 only. They were supposed to come to our > office for a meet-and-greet, but never came. This is > the second time we've tried to engage them with no > success. Guess they are not interested in our business. ALU have some pretty good routers, actually. Their 7xxx series routers and switches are up there with the best. In fact, I find their subscriber management solutions to be quite interesting compared to Cisco and Juniper. I did some testing at their lab in Antwerp a few months ago, and was mighty impressed with some of the work they've done in mobile to wi-fi hand-off. Very good boxes and solutions, to be honest. It's just that in the metro, they still don't have anything close to the ME3600X (or ASR920). > Agreed. ACX is just not there. It baffles me why > Juniper has left this market untapped. The mid-range MX > is just too expensive and too big for our deployments > and the lack of LSR functionality in the EX won't work > for us. Back when the MX80 was launching (c. 2009), I was speaking to the Juniper folk heading the project, and they promised a 1U MX80 with 20x or 40x Gig-E ports, and 2x or 4x 10Gbps uplinks, with all MX software features. How I still wish for such a box. Mark.
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