[179759] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Alcatel-Lucent 7750 Service Router (SR)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Craig)
Wed May 6 19:13:48 2015
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Date: Wed, 6 May 2015 19:13:45 -0400
From: Craig <cvuljanic@gmail.com>
To: Colton Conor <colton.conor@gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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If you know Juniper and Cisco, the learning curve isn't so bad to pick up
the ALU CLI, after working with it for a brief time, you catch on quickly.
Their products are quite impressive, and a # of the carriers, are moving to
them and some have already moved to them and are quite happy with their
decision.
On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 6:24 PM, Colton Conor <colton.conor@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am worried as most tech's know Cisco and Juniper, so going to ALU would
> be a learning curve based on replies I am getting off list.
>
> On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 5:22 PM, Dan Snyder <sliplever@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > They are definitely good for that. We use them in part of our network for
> > something very similar.
> >
> > I am not sure why they aren't mentioned that much. I know that they have
> > been pretty popular in the past couple years.
> >
> > We are planning on using 7750 SR-a4's in the future but right now we
> > mainly have 7750SR7/12s.
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > On May 6, 2015, at 6:00 PM, Colton Conor <colton.conor@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Taking full BGP routes from 4+ carriers on 10G connections. Why is ALU
> > never mentioned, but Juniper MX and Cisco are all day long?
> >
> > The new 7750 SR-a4 looks like a Juniper MX80 or MX104 killer.
> >
> > On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 4:58 PM, Dan Snyder <sliplever@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> We have been using them for almost 8 years now and have been pretty
> >> happy. What are you looking to use them for?
> >>
> >> Sent from my iPhone
> >>
> >> > On May 6, 2015, at 5:48 PM, Colton Conor <colton.conor@gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > I was wondering if anyone was using a Alcatel-Lucent 7750 Service
> >> Router
> >> > (SR) in their network? How does this platform compare the the Cisco
> ASR,
> >> > Brocade MLXe, and Juniper MX line?
> >>
> >
> >
>
