I recently purchased several ACX5048's and am testing and deploying them as we speak...all in all, I'm pleased thus far. This is pretty much my first experience with Juniper/MPLS devices.
I got a working scenario as of yesterday of EVPLAN (MEF-speak for ELAN with tagging on PE-CE handoff)...(basically VPLS Routing Instance with BGP AD and LDP Sig) the JTAC was helpful in understanding the PE-CE Junos Ethernet tag push/pop I needed. This is interoperating with IOS XR (asr9k) and Classic IOS (ME3600). One glitch was noticed but it might be a subtlety during service activation/change, but was also only seen on the 9k XR side as a down'd psuedowire... (j)tac cases are in the works to understand why that occurred. Other than that acx5048, me3600, asr9k are working in a RFC4762 VPLS scenario. I will say that JTAC did not know how to do this right away... it took them a day or more to figure it out. JTAC said that this ACX5048 platform is fairly new and they are learning it as well. (this was the person I talked to anyway) I have a working scenario with MPLS L3VPN on the ACX5048 also... inet-vpn... this is also interop'ing just fine with ME3600 and ASR9k... I did a brief test with ELINE (mef speak for p-to-p pw) and seemed ok I have a few more things I need to test, but at this point I've been pleased with the ACX5048. I love the (48) 10 gig interfaces (6) 40 gig in a 1U size ! - Aaron -----Original Message----- From: juniper-nsp [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jerry Jones Sent: Friday, April 29, 2016 1:07 PM To: Colton Conor <[email protected]> Cc: Juniper List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [j-nsp] EX4600 Vs QFX 5100 VS ACX 5048 The ACX has many more MPLS and CE features compared to the QFX. On Apr 29, 2016, at 11:35 AM, Colton Conor <[email protected]> wrote: Besides port count and expansion modules, what is the main differences between these three Juniper switches (actually Juniper has the ACX under their router section on their website). I believe all three use Broadcom Trident II chips. This Juniper doc says: Even though QFX5100 and EX4600 Switches use the same chipset, MPLS support differs.EX4600 switches support only basic MPLS functionality while QFX5100 switches support some of the more advanced features. See "MPLS Feature Support on QFX Series and EX4600 Switches" on page 17 for details. http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/en_US/junos14.1/information-products/pathway -pages/ex4600/mpls.pdf The ACX seems interesting. I know it is MEF 2.0 certified while the other two are not. Besided MEF certification I would like to know how it differs from the QFX5100 as the port count is identical. Does anyone have experience with these three platforms? _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp
