Agreed. I would just like to add on to your comment. I would prefer to hire someone with experience and the correct skill sets than someone with just a degree. Having a degree doesn't mean knowing the subject, I find it more often than not, they just memorize, regurgitate with no understanding of the fundamentals. When I was doing a lot of hiring all over the world as group CTO for a multinational. I would never hire a mid-senior sys admin who couldn't tell me the fundamental low level differences between a POSIX based OS and say Windows coherent or someone to a graphics artist post who did not know at least 1 form of the traditional arts like drawing or photography
Well not really, Juniper announced 250G (as opposed to the 140G Cisco just announced) full duplex per slot for the T Series last month to be available in a similar time frame.
So while it's "bigger" by virtue of the fact that Cisco offer a 16 Slot version and Juniper only offers an 8 (yeah "just" the 4 Terabits per chassis" it's hardly "put to shame".
Don't have any experience with the CRS-1 but Juniper M series routers have outperformed Cisco GSR consistently from my experience.
Strangely, at $90,000 a pop, this strikes me as rather cheap. I wonder if that's a "rate limited" model so that you have to pay big bux more in order to get the full capacity?
You wish. For $90K you probably get an empty chassis... the smallest available empty chassis, that is.
You'd get at least 1 PSU along with the chassis. My experience is cisco supervisor throughput start dropping massively the moment you start having any rate-limit configs on it. Anyways you won't be having any supervisor blades with that price, and I have never encountered any "crippled" functionality in hardware from Cisco products, although the varying versions of IOS do seem to "cripple" certain functionality but I don't recall Cisco ever trying to cripple their hardware to make different versions, they just make you buy a bigger box instead.
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Agreed. I would just like to add on to your comment. I would prefer to hire someone with experience and the correct skill sets than someone with just a degree. Having a degree doesn't mean knowing the subject, I find it more often than not, they just memorize, regurgitate with no understanding of the fundamentals. When I was doing a lot of hiring all over the world as group CTO for a multinational. I would never hire a mid-senior sys admin who couldn't tell me the fundamental low level differences between a POSIX based OS and say Windows coherent or someone to a graphics artist post who did not know at least 1 form of the traditional arts like drawing or photography
and still puts other routers to shame.
Well not really, Juniper announced 250G (as opposed to the 140G Cisco just announced) full duplex per slot for the T Series last month to be available in a similar time frame.
So while it's "bigger" by virtue of the fact that Cisco offer a 16 Slot version and Juniper only offers an 8 (yeah "just" the 4 Terabits per chassis" it's hardly "put to shame".
Don't have any experience with the CRS-1 but Juniper M series routers have outperformed Cisco GSR consistently from my experience.
Strangely, at $90,000 a pop, this strikes me as rather cheap. I wonder if that's a "rate limited" model so that you have to pay big bux more in order to get the full capacity?
You wish. For $90K you probably get an empty chassis... the smallest available empty chassis, that is.
You'd get at least 1 PSU along with the chassis. My experience is cisco supervisor throughput start dropping massively the moment you start having any rate-limit configs on it. Anyways you won't be having any supervisor blades with that price, and I have never encountered any "crippled" functionality in hardware from Cisco products, although the varying versions of IOS do seem to "cripple" certain functionality but I don't recall Cisco ever trying to cripple their hardware to make different versions, they just make you buy a bigger box instead.