Here are some interesting tidbits found recently...
The US DoD will be using a Juniper "M7i" for their ipv6 testbed:
https://spot.hpcmo.hpc.mil/hpc/docs/Htdocs/DOC-MIL/DREN/CONFERENCE/2003/2003_ron_broersma_ipv6_pilot.ppt
Mention of the M7i and M10i in this document:
http://216.239.41.104/search?q=cache:CHexJWF9Db0J:www.ietf.org/IESG/Implementations/rfc-2338-implementation.txt+juniper+m7i&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
From the PDF, regarding DREN implemention of ipv6:
No great incentive for DREN sites to implement IPv6
no near term win
additional effort and complexity, generally not funded
Can't deploy in a safe and secure manner
Existing DREN intrusion detection (IDS) architecture incompatible with maturity of products in use
Juniper port mirror lacks IPv6 support
Anybody know what a the new M7i and M10i routers are? Specs, price estimates, release dates, etc?
The M7i is supposed to compete with the Cisco 7100/7200. It is designed as a provider managed CPE for DS3 and OC3 level customers. At least that is the niche they are targeting. It will come in two flavors - integrated dual port 100Base-T or single GigE. It also has an optional service engine for firewall, VPN, IDS, etc. which plugs into the SCB/FPC. I don't think they have been released into production yet, but I could be wrong.
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Robert Boyle wrote (on Oct 14):
The M7i is supposed to compete with the Cisco 7100/7200. It is designed as
a provider managed CPE for DS3 and OC3 level customers. At least that is
the niche they are targeting. It will come in two flavors - integrated dual
port 100Base-T or single GigE. It also has an optional service engine for
firewall, VPN, IDS, etc. which plugs into the SCB/FPC. I don't think they
have been released into production yet, but I could be wrong.
They're mentioned in the release notes for JunOS 6.1 FWIW.
Chris.