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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi all,<br>
<br>
We use gear from all three vendors mentioned, but we've only use
Juniper gear for BGP duties to date. I'm not going to make a
recommendation, but instead give some honest observations from our
experiences.<br>
<br>
We accept a few domestic-only transit tables and the memory usage
for these tables is surprising given my past encounters with other
routers - I've seen Cisco 7206 boxes handle 2 full transit tables
and a few IX tables in the same memory as the Juniper gear handles
2 domestic-only + default route tables.<br>
<br>
Juniper gear (in our experience) tends to do one thing very well.
By that I mean that if a JunOS instance is tasked with one of
switching, security or routing the outcomes are good. Stacking two
of these functions can be problematic and seemingly requires
regular reboots of devices (JSRP is really a non-negotiable for
firewall and/or routers - VC is the same for switching). That
said, the JSRP failover for BGP isn't perfect, and you should
expect to see convergence time on failover.<br>
<br>
One concerning outcome we have seen is the current fracturing of
the JunOS feature base. The "single OS" promise Juniper promotes
is currently problematic - we have multiple JunOS devices
fulfilling switching, routing and firewall duties and the
disparity of recommended JunOS versions between them has grown
over the last 12 - 24 months. <br>
<br>
With those points in mind, the fact that you have a fairly
complete BSD environment on each JunOS box is a big deal -
scripting, inspection and problem solving skills come across well
for System Admins, the versioning of configuration is a welcome
and cheap safety net and we're yet to see interoperability
problems with a significant number of other vendors and
environments.<br>
<br>
We welcome questions on or off list if anyone has them.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
Chris<br>
<br>
On 11/12/2013 4:46 PM, Andrew White wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hey guys,<br>
<br>
I've recently set up my own AS and I'm looking at broadcasting
my own BGP. I'm wanting to find some decent hardware at a
reasonable price to do so.<br>
<br>
The same router will also run my servers (about 50 VMs/3
physical boxes) and have to deal with multiple upstream
providers (two currently, but more to come at my DC).<br>
<br>
I also want something that can hold a big BGP routing table.<br>
<br>
When I was first getting into networking, Cisco was "the big
thing". Now I look at the market and Junipers seem really common
for the cheaper end of the market. I've seen Brocades too - I
think they may be out of my price range, but I'm not sure if
they're worth the money or if there's a huge benefit.<br>
<br>
I've been tossing up over a few Huawei models which are really,
really cheap!<br>
<br>
I don't know a ton about the hardware side of things and I'm
sure there are others on the list with a similar level of
knowledge to me. I'm happy for any vendor contacts, and I'm sure
replies on list would be appreciated for other people to learn
about this too!<br>
<br>
Thanks guys!<br>
<br>
Andrew</div>
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