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RE: cheap MPLS router recommendations


From: "tim () pelican org" <tim () pelican org>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2020 09:38:21 +0100 (BST)

On Saturday, 17 October, 2020 00:41, "Tony Wicks" <tony () 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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