Saku, I guess you are right the QFX10002-36Q is probably a better comparison. But let's be honest, Juniper is not going to sell a QFX10002-36Q for less than $20k like Arista will do for a semi- similar box. Even with a high discount (like 90 percent off list), the Juniper QFX10002-36Q at $360k list price comes nowhere close on the price point. Cisco, Juniper, ALU, etc are all not going to see a low cost high density fixed switch because that would cannibalize on their sales on the larger platforms. I really think Arista is kind of unique here as they don't have another routing platform to cannibalize, so they are competitively pricing their platform.
So I guess the question becomes, what features are missing that Arista does not currently have? They seems to be adding more and more features, and taking more market share. Here is a list of features supported: https://www.arista.com/en/support/product-documentation/supported-features I have not personally used Arista myself, but I like what I am seeing as far as price point, company culture, and repruatation in the market place. I know their switching is solid, but I am not sure about their routing. Arista claims to have much, much faster BGP convergence time than all the other vendors. On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 1:20 PM, Saku Ytti <s...@ytti.fi> wrote: > On 23 April 2016 at 10:52, Tom Hill <t...@ninjabadger.net> wrote: > > In broad strokes: for your money you're either getting port density, or > > more features per port. The only difference here is that there's > > suddenly more TCAM on the device, and I still don't see the above > > changing too drastically. > > Yeah OP is comparing high touch chip (MX104) to low touch chip > (Jericho) that is not fair comparison. And cost is what customer is > willing to pay, regardless of sticker on the box. No one will pay > significant mark-up for another sticker, I've never seen in RFP > significant differences in comparable products. > > Fairer comparison would be QFX10k, instead of MX104. QFX10k is AFAIK > only product in this segment which is not using Jericho. If this is > competitive advantage or risk, jury is still out, I lean towards > competitive advantage, mainly due to its memory design. > > -- > ++ytti >
