[134710] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is Cisco equpiment de facto for you?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Mon Jan 10 10:43:25 2011
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 09:42:39 -0600
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: Brandon Kim <brandon.kim@brandontek.com>
In-Reply-To: <BLU158-w62DD4D2B47BAF044206783DC0E0@phx.gbl>
Cc: nanog group <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 1/10/2011 9:31 AM, Brandon Kim wrote:
> Would you say that it's fair to say that if you are serious at all
> about being a service provider that your core equipment is Cisco
> based?
>
> Am I limiting myself by thinking that Cisco is the "de facto" vendor
> of choice? I'm not looking for so much "fanboy" responses, but more
> of a real world experience of what you guys use that actually work
> and does the job.....
>
You have to really narrow the network criteria. What's good for DSL
subscriber termination with or without subscriber management features
(on router, or handled externally), in core networks a
t1/t3/oc3/gig-e/oc48/10G+ speeds, mpls features, etc.
The first kickoff on any network is if it is service provider or
enterprise. The feature sets and types of boxes differ greatly between
these for most manufacturers (as does price).
I've been happy with, and disappointed with, Cisco, Extreme, Juniper,
and Brocade. There's a few others out there that I haven't used or tested.
In the Terabit market, I love Alcatel and Juniper, but I can't afford
the terabit market. :)
Jack
