On May 24, 2011, at 2:26 PM, Brent Jones wrote:
Well, with the new Juniper entry level MX devices out now, the cost difference between Vyatta and Juniper is probably insignificant now, and with Juniper devices, you have much higher PPS rate.
Granted, I have Vyatta devices now doing BGP, and they work fine, but you can't argue that ASICs can forward much faster than a general purpose CPU :)
To each their own
So the applications where I've deployed vyatta have a lot to do with having a topological need for a router/firewall/ipsec tunnel termination point in a VM. Im some cases I'm not particularly proud of the results. but it's not a use case that juniper presently addresses. devices down in srx210/240/ja2320 land are a rather different keetle of fish in comparision to an mx80/mx240.
-- Brent Jones brent@servuhome.net