From the spec sheets, the EX8208 seems to fit the bill. It will be teaming up with an older Alcatel L3 switch, which will work as backup. VRRP, OSPF, MSTP. It'll be replacing another Alcatel L3 switch that we're sending back due to way too many bugs and reliability issues over

Hello, I'm thinking of buying a Juniper EX8208 to serve as the core L3 switch on an collapsed campus network (faculty, academia). Rough figures: around 6,000 eyeballs, up to around 10,000 MACs, spread over some 30 buildings of varying size. OM2/OM3 fiber from the buildings to the core, using 1Gb optics. Planning to upgrade to monomode within 2 years and may migrate some buildings to 10 Gb. the 1.5 year span that we had it. We are fully IPv6 dual-stack (for over 10 years now), so this needs to support fully working OSPFv3, VRRPv3, MLD and so on. According to the manuals for the EX line, that seems to be the case (with some limitations regarding OSPFv3, it seems). Access and aggregation switches are mostly Alcatel. There are a few other routers for VLANs with specific requirements (NAT, firewalling, etc). All using OSPFv2 and OSPFv3. I'd welcome any feedback regarding the EX820x, positive or negative. Bugs, support quality, stability issues, scalability, IPv6 support... I could go up to the EX9200 if necessary. I've had very good experience with the SRX2x0 line in a separate setting, and Juniper TAC in general always seemed quite good. Of course the EX8200 is a different ballpark so things may be different. I'm curious for example: as a switch, I'd expect the EX8200 to work in packet mode, yes? Or does it have flowd and its security {...} section? I wouldn't really use the flow features at this level and wouldn't like to have it there waiting to catch a bug from some weird packets thrown at it. Thank you for reading. Regards, Israel G. Lugo