Thanks Mark, I haven't been aware of any buffer deficiency in my 4550's. If something adverse is occurring, I'm not aware.
Thanks for the warning about large VC... I don't really intend on going past the (2) stacked. After we outgrow it, I'll move on. Aaron > On Jul 7, 2018, at 3:02 PM, Mark Tinka <mark.ti...@seacom.mu> wrote: > > > > On 7/Jul/18 20:01, Aaron Gould wrote: > >> I love my dual-ex4550 data center virtual chassis's However, I enabled mpls >> vrf on one recently and didn't feel very good about proceeding... So I will >> revert to pure ethernet switching, I put 40 gig into it and AE for fat 80 >> gig pipe to PE...actually my Facebook FNA, Google ggc, Netflix oca and >> Akamai aanp, plus private data center stuff are all connected to that EX4550 >> virtual chassis x2 for site diversity and redundancy. That's how solid they >> are. I depend on them for all that content... And have for about 5 years... >> Pretty much never a problem. Rock Solid. > > We've been super happy with the EX4550, save for two issues: > VC bandwidth doesn't scale well. You have to be careful about having a large > EX4550-based VC, either in terms of member nodes or bandwidth being switched. > Buffer memory is very low. > The EX4600 only took the portfolio up to about 12MB of buffer memory, which > is peanuts. But, as I've mentioned before, the back-breaker was that ELS > debacle. > > So bye-bye rock solid EX4550, hello Arista. Juniper royally messed with the > pooch on this one. > > No point in us trying to maintain a platform that is now EoS, and very soon, > will be EoL. > > Mark. _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp
