[123433] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Alcatel-Lucent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (piotr sawicki)
Mon Mar 8 08:31:44 2010
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:31:00 +0100
From: piotr sawicki <piotr.sawicki.pl@gmail.com>
To: Chris Wallace <lists@iamchriswallace.com>
In-Reply-To: <A2CA2083-AE50-4573-823C-8998C1B6C015@iamchriswallace.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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Chris Wallace wrote:
> I am hoping to get some peoples opinions on Alcatel-Lucent routers. We are looking at the 7750 SR line and the 7450 ESS line. We are currently a Cisco shop but these would be deployed in a completely new network delivering mostly MPLS based services and DIA. Any comments are welcome, good and bad.
>
> ---Chris
>
Hello !!
First time on the list :)
I'd like to say something in opposite . These are very weak routers ..
We ( SP on country level , PL ) had two of them , implemented in core ,
as pure ip routers .
The worst thing in it was bgp proto .. Router was unable to withstand
20+ peering sessions , most of that outgoing bgp session to customers ,
a few peerings , and only 1v2 incoming upstream providers
When there was instability/surge in bgp updates , router was able to
break itself tcp sess. Dwnld bgp table (150,000prefix) took 2h or more ...
Things done in hardware should be working although ( bridge .. , maybe
label switching , vpls ) Tech support is very weak. Expect problems
with interoperability .
Sorry to say that . It was 3+ years time ago , maybe they improved
themself .. :)
If you want 2 spare chassis , we have them free
// best regards Piotr Sawicki .
