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Re: E1200i vs EX8200 in Large Deployment
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (itservices88)
Sat Jun 5 19:17:26 2010
In-Reply-To: <20100603171300.P713@evil.minions.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2010 16:17:09 -0700
From: itservices88 <itservices88@gmail.com>
To: Tom <bifrost@minions.com>
Cc: Adam LaFountain <adam.lafountain@googlemail.com>, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Tom <bifrost@minions.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Jun 2010, Adam LaFountain wrote:
>
>> If anyone out there has any pro/con experience with the Force10 E1200i or
>> S50 in a large environment I'd really appreciate your thoughts.
>>
>
> Those are totally different animals, they don't even run the same code :)
> E1200 is a large chassis switch, S50N/V are 1U stackables. One can actually
> do (tables/mpls) IP routing, one can't; Basically one is decent for core,
> one for server agg.
>
>
> I'm comparing them against the Juniper EX8200 and EX4200 respectively and
>> curious about hardware/software stability on both brands.
>>
>
> It really depends on what you're looking for... The EX series is a great
> L2/L3 switch, but likely you'd end up wanting MX in core if you're going the
> Juniper direction. IMHO Juniper is faster and more responsive in
> releasing updates if that matters.
>
> I've seen Juniper eat F10's lunch more than once recently, so you should
> probably figure out what you want first before you get in too deep :)
>
> -Tom
>
>
>
