I had a couple different flavors of Cisco ASR920 in my lab recently but dropped it from consideration since it top'ed out at (6) 10 gig interfaces. I opted for the Juniper ACX5048 since it's got (48) 10 gig and (6) 40 gig - so a possible total of (72) 10 gig interfaces.
I tested L3VPN on ACX5048 and it looked good. I tested L2VPN VPLS BGP Auto Discovered w/BGP Sig and /LDP Sig and both were functional. Aaron -----Original Message----- From: juniper-nsp [mailto:juniper-nsp-boun...@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Mark Tinka Sent: Monday, February 22, 2016 12:31 AM To: Saku Ytti <s...@ytti.fi>; Johan Borch <johan.bo...@gmail.com> Cc: juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net Subject: Re: [j-nsp] Juniper ACX On 9/Feb/16 17:34, Saku Ytti wrote: > ACX covers many boxes with different HW. ACX2k is BRCM Enduro, as is > Cisco ASR901. My comments are about ACX2k. > > > VPLS is not supported, and I don't think it ever will be. > > Only way to protect control-plane would be forwarding filter where you > match local addresses or implementing it in all interfaces. So not > really. > > Firewall filters are funky, like you can't match to prefix-lists at > all, you have to enumerate all the addresses in the firewall filter > itself, which is peculiar, considering this is not HW feature. > IPV6 FW filters weren't supported at all when I tested them. > > Very few IFL can have counters enabled (disabled by default) > > Shaper calculates L2 rate, which I think is categorically wrong. > > > If you can live with the limitations, it can be useful and affordable > box, but be sure that the CAPEX benefit is sufficient to justify the > inherent complexity of running HW with limited HW capabilities. As I've mentioned before on this list, we dropped it due to lack of NG-MVPN support (limitation in the Broadcom chip used on the platform). Juniper have no plans to get a custom, cheap chip in there. So we went with Cisco's ASR920. Does everything we want for half the price of their ME3600X platform, and works just like a regular ASR1000 router. When Juniper wise-up, we shall revisit; but not until then. Mark. _______________________________________________ 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