GSR, 7600, Juniper M?, oh my!

Wed Jan 7 03:17:18 UTC 2004

At 09:37 PM 1/6/2004, you wrote:
>Oh, also, on the subject of used market pricing...
>
>It's been a while since I looked at Cisco ChDS3 PA
>pricing in any serious detail, but as I recall they
>were valued as though they were made of gold and
>personally blessed by Pope John Chambers when compared
>to used Juniper ChDS3s. If this is really your

Last time I bought a PA-MC-T3, I paid $4700.00 and that is a GREAT price. 
They usually sell for $5k+ Two years ago, I sold some extras for 
$1500-2000/ea. They have more than doubled in price. The PA-MC-2T3 cards 
are going for $10-12k used now! I bought them in 2000 and 2001 for $4500 each.

>application, you could probably sell your load of
>ChDS3 PAs to the waiting crowd of suckers on eBay and
>trade up to a Juniper with money left over, on any
>decent number of chds3's.

So... Everyone always says Juniper is so great. How does one get a 
legitimate copy of JunOS and a software support contract. I have called and 
emailed Juniper at least 3-4 times via each method and never received any 
response regarding getting a license for a used router. I would like to buy 
a used M5/10/20/40 just to play with it so I can learn more about them and 
how they work. We are interesting in the scalability and the cheap PIC 
cards available for the Juniper gear - especially the channelized DS3 
interfaces. Does anyone have a useful contact or number for software 
maintenance at Juniper? I don't want to spend $5-10k on used Juniper gear 
if I can't get an OS to run on it. Any Juniper lovers care to help? TIA!

-Robert

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