[VOIPSEC] Juniper as an SBC

[Jiri Kuthan]

out of curiosity: what do you think you need an SBC for? -jiri

J. Oquendo wrote:
>> Stay far far away, go look at Covergence and Acme.
>>
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>> Nathan Stratton                                CTO, BlinkMind, Inc.
>> nathan at robotics.net                         nathan at blinkmind.com
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> 
> Can you offer some clarity other than one sentence. Why would
> or should I stay far far away. Can you give me any detailed
> cons/pros about your experience. This definitely was not the
> kind of answer I had hoped for. For example, I currently am
> using Netrakes(Audiocodes) and I can tell you some of the
> pros and cons:
> 
> Cons:
> Takes forever implementing changes. Once you push a policy,
> you'll be stuck for no less than 10 minutes (I've timed it)
> waiting for the policy to take place. If you erred, you have
> to wait it out.
> 
> EMS - once stuck on stupid (as I like to say) - if it gets
> in any way hiccuped, you have to literally reboot that side
> of the SBC. It's based on Java and happens frequently.
> 
> Name changes/reconfigurations - horrible - rebuild your
> trunk from scratch.
> 
> There are plenty more cons but it would become a book.
> 
> Pros:
> Extremely fast failover
> CLI! For those who don't like being limited to GUI. On
> the con side however, changes need to be made via GUI.
> Does EXACTLY what we need it to do... (too long to explain)
> 
> Anyone can say "No!!!" But please offer some form of con
> for stating no otherwise I tend to go back to the days
> when zealotry over things like operating systems was a
> high concern. "No!!! You use BSD! Dude! Solaris so rocks
> your Linux slash QNX slash BeOS devel!"
> 
> 
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> J. Oquendo
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