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by stephengillie
2963 days ago
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>Are you saying there are network engineers/management at ISPs who don't believe IPv6 is an imperative? Unfortunately, this is true for at least one major ISP in the USA. IPv6 support is seen as a low priority internally, as they work to merely keep their devices online. One huge secret about Juniper devices is that the hardware is remarkably unreliable. At one company, a partial Juniper SSG failure prevented a failover to good hardware. At another, we so many Juniper SRX RMAs that we had a full time network engineer handling the RMA paperwork. (Admittedly, they said we were their biggest client, and had a bigger implementation than Juniper's own network lab.) They have a bad habit of failing on reboot - one was operating fine, we reboot it and it reports errors. This happened repeatedly in several data centers - at one point we had 1/6 of our data centers non-redundant while we waited for RMA shipping. |
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This is patently untrue. The MTTF is the same as Cisco gear. The only reason this would be a "huge secret" is because it is not widely held opinion.
There are bad revision of chipsets on certain boards from time to time yes. And if you place a large order you will likely feel that pain if you're shipped boards with those revs. I know this first hand and with SRXs. Firewalls are but one segment of their product line and the one that was never their core strength(in fact this was the Netscreen acquisition.)
The T4000 and MX 960s are both "big iron" and in both the core and edge of Tier 1 ISPs. The reputation of these are exceptional and for good reason. Their EX/QFX ToR switches also have a well-deserved reputation.
To use your anecdotal experience with on particular segment of their product line and make a sweeping generalization of the quality of their entire offering is absurd.
I say this as someone who doesn't have a horse in the race and has very little love for network hardware vendors in general.