i doubt you are able to get the same features out of whitebox hardware. Juniper's core routers have neat features in terms of redundancy. failing over a FPC (c

i doubt you are able to get the same features out of whitebox hardware. Juniper's core routers have neat features in terms of redundancy. failing over a FPC (card with ASIC) to another routing engine(control plane) without downtime or packet flow impact is a big one. Performance might be there on the lower end (<40g), but there are a lot of features which require asics. Another example is QoS/CoS without impacting performance or queues. These are the kind of things you cannot handle at the CPU without impacting traffic performance, which bites you when you are doing major traffic flows.