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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Juniper M10i sufficient for BGP, or go with M20?
On Sun, 13 May 2007, Donald Stahl wrote: > > > I don't know much about Juniper but I'm about to learn with a new job. If > > I'm going to take full routes from a couple of upstreams and have a couple of > > peers will the M10i (768M max) be enough or is the M20 (2048M max) a better > > choice. Layout here is such that I'd expect to use a single quad gigabit port > > ethernet blade in each of a pair of M10i/M20 to achieve redundancy. > The M10i is perfectly capable of handling the full table and then some. > The only question is whether you want to buy more just in case your needs > grow. > > That said- Last time I spoke to a Juniper rep I was told that their 4 port > GigE card for the M7/M10 is oversubscribed 4:1- ie the backplane > connection is only gigabit. Check into that if it is important to you. I he said 'blade' to which I read '4 pics in a FPC'... maybe it's a terminology thing? Neal?
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