In the day and age of SDN, let’s talk about the tried and true CLI.   Lets be honest, in a world where there are 10+ year old network devices still in production, it’s not going away any time soon.

I recently had a conversation with Brent Salisbury that re-introduced a bit of a hot button with me.  The term “next-generation” is over used and at this point arguably meaningless.  So many things are labeled “next-generation” that, while technically true, they may be the next in a line of product, the term has entered marketing typecast.

Logical systems are something that JunOS has done very, very right.  Regardless of if you need to create segregated administrative domains, routing domains or just labbing something up, this is a fantastic tool in the Juniper toolbox.  If you’re lucky enough to have an MX series available for testing, you’re already half way there.