On Fri, 16 Sept 2022 at 22:12, Jason Healy via juniper-nsp <juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net> wrote:
Hey Jason, > My question is, what would be the logical "step up" from the qfx on a small > network? I'm thinking the MX240 as it's the smallest router that has > redundant REs. However, I have no experience with the router family (we're > all EX/QFX). I'd consider a newer member of the QFX family, but I'd need to > know I'm not going to bump into a bunch of weird "unsupported on this > platform" issues. Yes. I don't immediately cannot think of any feature that isn't supported on MX that is supported on EX/QFX. Broadly speaking if you are not cost-sensitive, and you don't need the density, always buy an NPU box such as MX, because it's inherently more feature complete. Pipeline boxes like EX/QFX make sense if you are cost sensitive or need high density and can answer what your requirements are ahead of time and run a field trial against those specific requirements. In my experience for access providers your requirements are not a knowable variable, because you will introduce a new product during the life cycle of a device, therefore you will be carrying additional risk with pipeline compared to NPU. If you're a cloudy shop or incumbent telco you likely can have a frozen set of requirements that are knowable a-priori, which supports pipeline use-case. > I'm fine with EOL/aftermarket equipment; we've got a pretty traditional > layer-2 spoke-and-hub setup with layer-3 for IRB and a default route to our > ISP (no VXLAN, tunneling, etc). Our campus isn't growing so capacity isn't a > huge issue (we're 1g/10g uplinks everywhere, and the 10g aren't close to > saturation). I *might* want 40g as a handoff to an aggregation layer, but > that's about it. Thus, I'm OK with a relative lack of new features. Your problem is the slow rate interfaces and getting reasonable support for them. With MX if you are buying from a channel for chassis boxes you should be only buying LC9600, which is 24x400GE, another alternative is fixed config MX304. Both may be highly unsatisfactory to you in the front-plate. ACX portfolio may have some middle-ground to you. -- ++ytti _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp
