Re: cheap MPLS router recommendations

[Colton Conor <colton.conor () gmail com>]

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/


On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 3:38 AM tim () pelican org <tim () pelican org> wrote:

> 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.