Juniper’s SLAX needn’t be a dark art
At Interoute, we make extensive use of Juniper’s MX-960 platform to support enterprise and service provider business on a uniform packet network. A mature and established platform, the MX-960 is a solid workhorse for the usual suite of IP-based services offered by most providers: Internet access/transit, IP VPN, VPLS. JUNOS has persisting roots in FreeBSD and the core of Juniper’s routing architecture, rpd, has a respected heritage in the original UNIX gated – probably one of the earliest UNIX software programs to make use of asynchronous I/O in order to provide the facility to execute multiple concurrent tasks at the same time without resorting to UNIX processes.
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