Re: Brocade MLX Feedback

2015-01-15 Thread Youssef Bengelloun-Zahr
Hi, I've been running NetIron (MLXe + CER-RT) for quite some time, mostly happy with the products. Of course, there are always some unforseen / silly / nasty things that still turn one's mind upside down. What we noticed so far : - ISSU / hitless protocols upgrades : we have been pounding th

Re: Recommended L2 switches for a new IXP

2015-01-15 Thread Richard Hartmann
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Stephen R. Carter wrote: > We love our 5100s here. Out of interest: Are you running 13.2 or 14.1? What features are you using? Our own experiences with a bunch of 48 & 96 port machines running 14.1 is painful to say the least. Richard

Re: VDSL CPE Mixed Results

2015-01-15 Thread Scott Helms
I'm going to guess you're a CLEC from your website and a common problem I've seen in that scenario is that vectoring doesn't work between DSLAMs because it needs all pairs to be part of the vector group so that the DSLAM can mitigate FEXT. DSLAM vendors have been working on system level, rather th

Re: VDSL CPE Mixed Results

2015-01-15 Thread Shawn L
I was going to ask if you've tested the cable pair at all. If the pair is bad, or even a little out of balance, bad scotch loks, etc. VDSL isn't going to work properly. We have customers that are definitely in-range for VDSL but who cannot get it because there is a 26 gauge insert between two cro

Re: Recommended L2 switches for a new IXP

2015-01-15 Thread Chuck Anderson
Software Defined Networking (SDN) features that QFX5100 supports: Automatic configuration of OVSDB-managed VXLANs with trunk interfaces 14.1X53-D15 OVSDB support 14.1X53-D10 OpenFlow v1.0 14.1X53-D10 OpenFlow v1.3.1 14.1X53-D10 VXLAN Gateway 14.1X53-D10 http://pathfinder.juniper.net/feature-expl

Re: Recommended L2 switches for a new IXP

2015-01-15 Thread Stephen R. Carter
We always adhere to JTAC: http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=KB21476&actp=SUBSCRI PTION unless otherwise required by their support to change. Currently it is Junos 13.2X51-D26. My advice to you is to not use 14.1 unless you have a reason, as that is more of a dev branch in ter

Re: VDSL CPE Mixed Results

2015-01-15 Thread Andrew Carey
Also, what do your stats look like? 6kft is getting beyond the sweet spot for VDSL2, particularly if you're trying to push 10Mbps on the upstream. Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 15, 2015, at 5:36, Shawn L wrote: > > I was going to ask if you've tested the cable pair at all. If the pair is > bad