I would like your thoughts on going with a Juniper MX10003 or Cisco NCS 5504 as a SP Edge Router Solution. We have been running down the pricing and they very close from a price/support perspective.
We can basically get 6-40Gb & 12-100Gbit ports with the MX 10003 & 24 100Gb ports with the NCS 5504 which is overkill for our current network design. We will be going with 4 edge routers in a redundant design with 4 different upstreams for DIA.
I will mention that we asked Cisco for a 9K solution, the cost was just not even comparable to the MX10003 for the port density. Also they have a per port license as well. The 100Gbit option made me fall out of my chair when we saw the quote. To even compete on price they started pitching the NCS series. Juniper came right out of the gate with the MX10003 for our design.
Also how is Cisco's CGNAT solution on an ASR 1K? Is it even comparable to an A10?
Any insight would be helpful.
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