Re: OT : Juniper Advanced Services Interview, help needed.

Guys,

I have been in this mess for years now since I taught the first formal CRS-1
Class. Before that platform came out, Juniper was gaining strength in the SP
market. Juniper took advantage of the StrataCom and GSR not being a true
class 5 switch replacement.

There are many differences but here are the 3 major ones. It should not
surprise to find out that some of the differences have nothing to do with
technology.

Juniper has had a truly distributed architecture on there devices that has
been consistent across ALL of there platforms. Cisco is slowly achieving
this through Hardware changes. Eventually, they will get it done but why
focus on just one market? What do you expect when Cisco showed them how to
begin. Juniper ripped off Cisco and improved it. Cisco is just taking it to
another level.

Cisco has a very impressive price per port on the CRS-1. Juniper tried to
play catch up here and they are getting very close. It is also hard for
Juniper to compete with a company that has it's own Finance Company.

The way MPLS was rolled out. Juniper chose RSVP and Cisco chose LDP. Once
again, Cisco could always do RSVP just like Juniper could do LDP. Cisco just
hit ALL of the sheep down the hill while doing it. Juniper did not focus on
the simple approach. (Even though they helped mold the standards with
Cisco.)

Macros, Macros, Macros!!!! We Love these on Cisco Routers. Juniper chooses a
more manual approach. (For the most part)

I actually like Juniper routers for certain deployments, they are just not
winning any favoritism when it comes to MTU.

These are just my opinions. I am SURE that there are some Juniper guys that
are more qualified to speak to more differences, but then again.....this is
a CCIE forum, which gives credit to Farrukh's remarks. We know that a CCIE
is worth more in your bank account.:-) Then again, knowing both is very
powerful.

Paul

-- 
Paul Negron
CCIE# 14856 CCSI# 22752
Senior Technical Instructor
www.micronicstraining.com
> From: Farrukh Haroon <farrukhharoon_at_gmail.com>
> Reply-To: Farrukh Haroon <farrukhharoon_at_gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 11:26:00 +0300
> To: Dale Shaw <dale.shaw_at_gmail.com>
> Cc: John Chambers <johnchambers692_at_gmail.com>, <ccielab_at_groupstudy.com>
> Subject: Re: OT : Juniper Advanced Services Interview, help needed.
> 
> IMHO, you should expect more non-technical questions from the big boys :)
> 
> 'What if Cisco offers 10K more to you after 3 months, what will you do'?
> 
> 'What is so bad about .....'
> 
> 'Why would you like to Join Juniper and not Cisco...'
> 
> and so on.....
> 
> On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Dale Shaw <dale.shaw_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 5:22 AM, John Chambers
>> <johnchambers692_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Guys, I need some assistance on any killer difference between Cisco and
>>> Juniper, any advantage of one over the another for specific features
>>> especially Service Provider technologies, tips, anything tht can help me
>> in
>>> interview will be appreciated.
>> 
>> If I was in your position, I'd do the "JUNOS as a second language"
>> course. It's free and is very much focused on C to J conversions.
>> 
>> http://www.juniper.net/us/en/training/elearning/jsl.html
>> 
>> cheers,
>> Dale
>> 
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