cheap MPLS router recommendations

Colton Conor colton.conor at gmail.com
Wed Oct 21 21:11:00 UTC 2020


https://www.multicominc.com/wp-content/uploads/DZS-M3000_M.pdf

On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 4:08 PM Colton Conor <colton.conor at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well then Adam I would say the Dasan Zhone fits the budget. The M3000
> seems like a real beast for the price point with 100G ports.
>
> Yes, other whitebox vendors are doing this, but they seem to want 2-4k for
> the whitebox, and even more for the operating system, making it more
> expensive that Juniper from what I have seen.
>
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 3:27 PM <adamv0025 at netconsultings.com> wrote:
>
>> Just to clarify what cheap means, ideally  -$2000 to $4000 new
>>
>> -new is preferred as buying used kit on second hand market one is at the
>> mercy of the price fluctuations and availability.
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>> And the likes of the M2400 looks good 4x10G plus some 1G, unfortunately
>> there are no details on the webpage (and the datasheet can’t be downloaded…
>> )
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>> Are there more folks out there bundling open NOS and white-box HW along
>> with the support for the whole thing?
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>>
>> adam
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>> *From:* NANOG <nanog-bounces+adamv0025=netconsultings.com at nanog.org> *On
>> Behalf Of *Colton Conor
>> *Sent:* Monday, October 19, 2020 4:51 PM
>> *To:* tim at pelican.org
>> *Cc:* NANOG <nanog at nanog.org>
>> *Subject:* Re: cheap MPLS router recommendations
>>
>>
>>
>> I haven't tried one myself, but Dasan Zhone has the M2400 and M3000.
>> Basically, a whitebox with IP Infusion code on it. New, I think the price
>> point is sub $2000 to $4000 new. That's a ton of ports for that price
>> point. Anyone tried these yet?
>> https://dzsi.com/product-category/mobile-xhaul/
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>> On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 3:38 AM tim at pelican.org <tim at pelican.org> wrote:
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>> On Saturday, 17 October, 2020 00:41, "Tony Wicks" <tony at wicks.co.nz>
>> said:
>>
>> > Well, there is always the MX104 (if you want redundancy) or MX80 if you
>> > don’t. That will give you 80gig wire speed just don’t load it up with
>> > more than one full table.
>>
>> Bear in mind that the MX80 is now in the EoL process, you have <4 years
>> of support left.  Depending on your expected life-time / depreciation
>> rules, buying one new right now might be unwise.
>>
>> Do *not* throw a full table at it (or any of the PowerPC Junipers) unless
>> you have a lot of patience for reconvergence, and black-holes while you
>> wait.
>>
>> MX104 is a nice box for getting dual-RE in something relatively compact
>> and cheap, and has environmental hardening if that matters to you, but is
>> still not best pleased with full tables.
>>
>> OP could do with clarifying "cheap" :)
>>
>> Regards,
>> Tim.
>>
>>
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