<html><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000"><div><br></div><div>~$45k is the US list price... typical discount applies :-)</div><div><br></div><div data-marker="__SIG_PRE__"><br>thanks,<br>-Randy<br></div><div><br><span id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__">----- On Aug 8, 2019, at 2:33 AM, Baldur Norddahl <baldur.norddahl@gmail.com> wrote:<br></span></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010FF;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><div dir="auto">45k? No no, the mx204 with enough license to do BGP is more like 20k - 25k or less. It is actually quite cheap, so I doubt the OP will find anything much cheaper without going used or do a software router.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I feel it should be mentioned that a Linux box with 4x10G NIC and some random switch as port expander also will be able to fulfil the requirements and for a fraction of any other solution.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Regards </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Baldur </div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><br><div class="elided-text"><div dir="ltr">tor. 8. aug. 2019 06.47 skrev Randy Carpenter <<a href="mailto:rcarpen@network1.net" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">rcarpen@network1.net</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 0.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:'arial';font-size:10pt;color:#000000"><div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:'arial';font-size:13.333333015441895px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;text-decoration:none">If you don't require redundant routing engines, there is nothing from Juniper that will cost less and have the capacity you require. In fact, there really aren't any cheaper MX options at all, other than the kneecapped MX80 and MX104 variants. MX204 is really a nice box. I only wish they had a redundant version.</div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:'arial';font-size:13.333333015441895px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;text-decoration:none"><br></div><div style="color:#000000;font-family:'arial';font-size:13.333333015441895px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:#ffffff;text-decoration:none">Is price your only concern with the MX204? You might not need the full blown -R or -IR version, so the list price would only be ~$45K.</div></div><br><div>I'm not too familiar with other vendors, so I'll leave that to others.</div><div><br>thanks,<br>-Randy</div><br><div><span id="m_811860081174500510zwchr">----- On Aug 7, 2019, at 11:02 PM, Mehmet Akcin <<a href="mailto:mehmet@akcin.net" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">mehmet@akcin.net</a>> wrote:<br></span></div><div><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #1010ff;margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:'helvetica' , 'arial' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div dir="auto">Greetings,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I am looking for some suggestions on alternatives to mx204. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Any recommendations on something more affordable which can handle full routing tables from two providers?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Prefer Juniper but happy to look alternatives.</div><div dir="auto">Min 6-8 10G ports are required</div><div dir="auto">1G support required</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thanks in advance! </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Mehmet</div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Mehmet<br>+1-424-298-1903</div></blockquote></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></blockquote></div></div></body></html>