[134727] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Is Cisco equpiment de facto for you?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin M. Streiner)
Mon Jan 10 12:17:51 2011
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 08:19:58 -0500 (EST)
From: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
To: Brandon Kim <brandon.kim@brandontek.com>
In-Reply-To: <BLU158-w603EBE410E837DA830AADEDC0E0@phx.gbl>
Cc: nanog group <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Mon, 10 Jan 2011, Brandon Kim wrote:
> For those that have been Cisco focused, do you stay fully objective,
> and are you willing to pitch another vendor knowing that you will have
> to learn a new IOS? And that that will be your time that you'll have to
> spend to understand the product and support it?
I work at a multivendor shop - we're not afraid to work with other
vendors' gear. There's a lot of Cisco here, but there is a lot of
non-Cisco here too.
Core routing/switching: Cisco
Access switches: Cisco
Border routers: Juniper
Firewalls: Cisco/Fortinet
Load balancers: F5
Wireless: Cisco
IP Telephony: Avaya
SAN: Cisco/Brocade (I think - I don't touch the storage stuff too much :))
VPNs: Juniper/Fortinet/Cisco (depending on VPN type/application)
UPSs: Emerson(Liebert) and Eaton(Powerware)
jms
