Mark, I looked at Brocade as well, but on their carrier ethernet page they only list the CES which has max 4 10G ports. The only thing that has more than 4 10G ports and is MEF certified seems to be their larger MLXe routers. Those are more built for core than metro access.
On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 4:49 AM, Mark Tinka <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 30/Apr/16 02:24, Colton Conor wrote: > > So the Cisco 5001 is the direct competitor to the Juniper ACX5048. Both > seem to be based off the Broadcom Trident II. Mark can you give me more > details on the reasons why the Broadcom based offerings are such a bad > option? > > > I'm not saying the Broadcom chip is bad, I'm saying that if you are used > to having a ton of features easily available and accessible on the MX Trio, > you might be in for a shock on the Broadcom chip. We dumped the ACX because > the chip could not do certain things we felt were important to us, and the > ASR920 could (for more than half the price anyway). I know Aaron has been > struggling with VLAN mapping on the ACX this last week. Although I'm not > sure if that is related to the Broadcom chip, such capability is > straightforward on the Trio chips. > > > I know you like the ASR920, but 4 10G ports is not enough. > > > True, but looking at the cost and features of the ASR920, and the value it > gives us when running IP/MPLS services in the Access, it's cheaper for me > to run dedicated dark fibre to a larger PoP for 10Gbps requirements in some > places, or deploy DWDM pizza boxes alongside my ASR920's in others. > > For us, feature parity across all vendor equipment regardless of function, > size or location is much more important than anything else. > > When the vendors figure out how to deliver cheap 10Gbps ports on custom > chips in a 1U chassis, I'll be the first one to buy. > > > > Besides Cisco and Juniper solutions discussed, what else is out there that > has more than 4 10G ports with these feature sets? > > > Look at Brocade. > > I'm not sure what they are doing now, but back then, they had a solid 1U > Metro-E box. We never bought it because we wanted to keep two vendors only > in our network. Technically, the box was/is sound. But I'd definitely buy > them for some specific use cases we are working on. > > Mark. > _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp
