[134732] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is Cisco equpiment de facto for you?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Smith)
Mon Jan 10 12:39:46 2011
In-Reply-To: <BLU158-w62DD4D2B47BAF044206783DC0E0@phx.gbl>
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:38:10 -0500
From: James Smith <james@jamesstewartsmith.com>
To: Brandon Kim <brandon.kim@brandontek.com>
Cc: nanog group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
All the places I've worked in the past decade have been all Cisco shops for
routing and switching, with a lot of Cisco use for security too (firewalls
and IDS). Same with my current position, but we're switching to Juniper fo=
r
all those product categories. Same or better performance, but 10-20% less
cost. Additionally, I find the Juniper command line has more features that
make operating and monitoring much more efficient. Also, JunOS has only on=
e
development train which means that the commands I use work on every single
Juniper platform. It always bugs me when I=92m trying to setup QOS across =
a
network with different Cisco platforms (CatOS, ASA, different versions of
IOS) and each platform has a completely different way of doing it.
F5 all the way for content management.
TippingPoint for IPS.
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Brandon Kim <brandon.kim@brandontek.com>w=
rote:
>
> Hello gents:
>
> I wanted to put this out there for all of you. Our network consists of a
> mixture of Cisco and Extreme equipment.
>
> 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 rea=
l
> world
> experience of what you guys use that actually work and does the job.....
>
> No technical questions here, just general feedback. I try to follow the
> Tolly Group who compares products, and they continually show that Cisco
> equipment
> is a poor performer in almost any equipment compared to others, I find th=
at
> so hard to believe.....
>
> Thanks!
>
> Brandon
>
>
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James Smith
