What do you think about the Juniper MX line?

Fri Jul 1 21:33:00 UTC 2011

I just wanted to say thank you to all that posted feedback to this
thread. Your insight has been incredibly helpful and has most
certainly clarified many of the questions I had lingering.

Thanks again!!

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Randy Carpenter <rcarpen at network1.net> wrote:
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> The SRX line is nice for some uses, particularly with recent software updates that have fixed things like using IPv6 on vlan interfaces.
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> The SRX is not going to be the choice for an edge router that needs to do BGP and/or 1 Gb/s+ of traffic.
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> The SRX pretty much does everything in software, where the MX routes packets in ASICs.
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> SRX is great for a firewall box, or to be the edge for a small network.
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> I do wish there was an even lower-end MX than the new MX5 (all hardware routing, but ~$10k), as I would have many uses for such a thing in networks that only have a few uplinks of ~1 Gb/s. I don't need 20 Gb of throughput for that. But, if the budget allows for an MX5 (~$30k MSRP) or bigger, the MX line is very nice.
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> -Randy
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> ----- Original Message -----
>> Heh, I spent about 3mo evaluating/testing SRX's and I agree they had
>> potential but left /a lot/ to be desired.
>>
>> -Jeremy
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>> On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> wrote:
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>> > Sorry... I misspoke. My comments related to the SRX series and not
>> > the MX.
>> >
>> > The MX is a fine product in my experience.
>> >
>> > Owen
>> >
>> > On Jun 25, 2011, at 10:03 PM, Howard Hart wrote:
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>> > >
>> > > We have a couple installed as our edge routers.
>> > >
>> > > Pluses -  solid as a rock, easy to administer, and will take some
>> > extremely high packet rates for relatively low cost (important for
>> > us since
>> > we use them for VoIP traffic). If you're approaching the capacity
>> > of a 1GB
>> > uplink, I highly recommend these as your first step to 10 GB.
>> > >
>> > > Minuses - careful on your MX80 version. The MX80-48T includes a
>> > > built in
>> > 48 port 1 GigE switch, but we've had compatibility issues with it
>> > and other
>> > vendors switches. The modular version that replaces the MX80-48T
>> > costs quite
>> > a bit more, but it does give you a lot more connection and
>> > compatibility
>> > options.
>> > >
>> > > Howard Hart
>> > >
>> > > On Jun 25, 2011, at 9:37 PM, "Ryan Finnesey"
>> > <ryan.finnesey at HarrierInvestments.com> wrote:
>> > >
>> > >> I would love to know the same I am looking at the MX line as
>> > >> well for a
>> > >> new network build-out
>> > >>
>> > >> Cheers
>> > >> Ryan
>> > >>
>> > >>
>> > >> -----Original Message-----
>> > >> From: Chris [mailto:behrnetworks at gmail.com]
>> > >> Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2011 9:29 AM
>> > >> To: nanog at nanog.org
>> > >> Subject: What do you think about the Juniper MX line?
>> > >>
>> > >> Hello,
>> > >>
>> > >> I've been doing some research into using the MX line of Juniper
>> > >> routers
>> > >> and was interested in hearing people's experiences (the good,
>> > >> bad, and
>> > >> ugly). What do you like about them? What do you dislike?
>> > >> Where are you putting them in your network? Where are you not
>> > >> putting
>> > >> them? Why? What other platforms would you consider and why? I
>> > >> hope to
>> > >> hear some candid responses, but feel free to respond privately
>> > >> if you
>> > >> need to.
>> > >>
>> > >> Thanks!
>> > >>
>> > >>
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