[150855] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Huawei edge routers..
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Exley)
Tue Mar 6 16:42:58 2012
From: Jonathon Exley <Jonathon.Exley@kordia.co.nz>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2012 21:41:57 +0000
In-Reply-To: <4F56408C.8030905@brightok.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I last played with Huawei routers about 10 years ago and it looked very muc=
h like IOS. Interesting that they have changed.
Also interesting that you don't like Alcatel's TiMOS - I prefer it to IOS, =
and find it comparable to Junos.
I suppose we all have our own tastes...
Jonathon=20
-----Original Message-----
From: Jack Bates [mailto:jbates@brightok.net]=20
Sent: Wednesday, 7 March 2012 5:51 a.m.
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Huawei edge routers..
On 3/6/2012 4:20 AM, Saku Ytti wrote:
> I've not looked if they do netconf or whatnot, but that wasn't really=20
> my point. My point was, your system doesn't complain to you daily that=20
> working with huawei CLI is more annoying than IOS.
On the other hand, if you hop into other people's Huawei routers via CLI yo=
u will curse and scream. As close as I could tell, it handles most function=
ality of IOS, but they tried to find a synonym for every word cisco used in=
the cli.
I thought working in Alcatel was bad compared to IOS/Junos, but Huawei defi=
nitely is up there as bad. Communicating with their installers in a multi-v=
endor environment left a lot to be desired. Their documentation was somewha=
t readable.
In general, it is like all the other vendors. A ton of research to make sur=
e the product does exactly what you want it to do, testing and adapting eng=
ineering plans based on what it will actually do. Extremely long delays in =
fixing any bugs or problems which you can't resolve yourself.
Jack
(spends too much time in cli, needs a versatile translation system for quic=
k contract work).
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