Once upon a time, Marcel Rieux <m.z.rieux(a)gmail.com> said:
Vyatta Appliance, Vyatta 3520, Premium Subscription, H/W Expedited
4HR, 3 Years
Vyatta Appliance, Vyatta 3520, Premium Subscription, H/W Expedited 4HR
Parts & Labor, 3 Years (ships with US Power Cord as standard)
(Typically ships in 15-17 business days)
Price: $10,695.45
http://www2.vyatta.com/store/Vyatta-3520-Premium-with-4-Hour-Expedited-Se...
But I have no idea of how it compares to other Cisco's or Junipter's.
It appears to be comprable to a Juniper J-6350, except that the J-6350
has more slots, no spinning drives to fail, more software functionality,
a compatible path to higher end routers, and costs less. That looks to
be the highest-end Vyatta, and the J-6350 is a very low-end Juniper.
The question started out about ISPs, and as even a small ISP, a J-6350
is a low-end, limited use router; we have one in a small remote POP.
Basically, there's nothing wrong with using Linux in a router, but it
needs to be a router first, not a server case with some router cards.
Junipers are built around commodity Intel CPUs running FreeBSD (the
forwarding hardware uses custom ASICs on the mid- to high-end routers).
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Chris Adams <cmadams(a)hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.