[179772] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Alcatel-Lucent 7750 Service Router (SR)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bob Evans)
Wed May 6 23:53:42 2015
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Date: Wed, 6 May 2015 20:53:38 -0700
From: "Bob Evans" <bob@FiberInternetCenter.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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I will be getting one to try. I am pretty sure it will support the ol'
"show ? , config ?" If not that might be a problem :-)
Thank You
Bob Evans
CTO
> What's the price point of an SR-A4? Comparable to the MX104 or ASR9001?
>
> -- Stephen
>
> On 2015-05-06 7:13 PM, Craig wrote:
>> 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?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>
