[AusNOG] Cisco 7200 routers for sale

[Luke Iggleden]

+1 for the MX80 chassis. Only complaint is the poor RE CPU.

If you're running multiple full tables + VR's etc, expect 5 minutes for 
it to finish loading tables, then wait another 10 minutes+ while flowd 
sort out ip routes (or something) for the TRIO chipset to do IPFIX in 
hardware.

Once that's done though with some nice RE filters they are pretty bullet 
proof.



On 11/02/13 1:20 PM, Skeeve Stevens wrote:
> Juniper MX80 Chassis is what a lot of our customers have been doing.
>
> Starts at MX5 with 20GbTP, MX10 with 40GbTP, MX40 with 60GbTP then the
> MX80 with 80GbTP.
>
> As of recently, they can now be LNS's... the whole MX80 series (all
> above) can do up to about 4000 users.  You want more then you go to the
> MX240/480/960's.
>
> I think the costs compare very well compared to Cisco and also Brocade.
>
> One of the reasons we love the MX80's is that they are essentially Metro
> Ethernet Routers with a lot of flexibility that the Cisco's don't have
> (in the 7200's, ASR1Ks, etc) - and where they do compete with Cisco,
> they are massively cheaper.
>
> The 7200s are great devices, but the throughput is the killer these
> days... that and BGP table size, limited RAM and their ability to stand
> up agains DoS attacks.