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RE: What routers do folks use these days?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petter Bruland)
Mon Dec 9 18:04:33 2013
From: Petter Bruland <Petter.Bruland@allegiantair.com>
To: Elliot Finley <efinley.lists@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 23:04:10 +0000
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+1 for Brocade MLXe. Used on our edge and *knock on wood* have not had any =
issues with it ever. Full BGP routing table, multiple VRFs, QoS / bandwidth=
management.
We also have a few Brocade CER series routers, which are awesome as well fo=
r metro edge. And for political reasons a bunch of Cisco Nexus/Cat4500 gear=
in the core...
-P
-----Original Message-----
From: Elliot Finley [mailto:efinley.lists@gmail.com]=20
Sent: Monday, December 09, 2013 2:29 PM
Cc: nanog list
Subject: Re: What routers do folks use these days?
+1 for Brocade MLXe. Good Price. Good stuff. Good TAC.
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 1:19 AM, Fredy Kuenzler <kuenzler@init7.net> wrote:
> Am 29.11.2013 06:37, schrieb Jawaid Desktop:
> > We're a service provider, and we have a network full of Cat6509's.
> > We are finding that we are outgrowing them from the standpoint of=20
> > their ability to handle lots of large routing tables. Obviously=20
> > their switching capability is still superb but one of them with 20=20
> > peers is starting to groan a bit and RAM is going to be an issue=20
> > soon.
> >
> > What do people use these days? Our backbone needs in the next 2-3=20
> > years are going to be sub-100Gbps.
>
> Check the Brocade MLXe series. We (Init7 / AS13030) are using them and=20
> the previous XMR series for years and are happy with it. CLI is=20
> Cisco-look-and-feel, the software tree has a clear structure (unlike=20
> Cisco with hundreds of versions) and the TAC is willing to ssh into=20
> your gear to assist.
>
> --
> Fredy Kuenzler
>
> Init7 (Switzerland) Ltd.
> AS13030
> St. Georgen-Strasse 70
> CH-8400 Winterthur
> Twitter: @init7 / @kuenzler
> http://www.init7.net/
>
>
