[192895] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BRAS/BNG Suggestion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James Bensley)
Fri Dec 2 05:54:08 2016
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From: James Bensley <jwbensley@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2016 10:53:34 +0000
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 2 December 2016 at 10:37, tim@pelican.org <tim@pelican.org> wrote:
> On Friday, 2 December, 2016 05:55, "Mark Tinka" <mark.tinka@seacom.mu>
> said:
>
> > Redback used to be popular - I believe they got picked up by Ericsson.
>
> I'd steer clear at a small scale like 20k subscribers. In my experience,
> Ericsson as an organisation just aren't set up to deal with a company that
> want to buy a couple of boxes, install and run them themselves, and call
> support when something breaks - it's all about multi-month PoCs and
> fully-managed rollouts at incumbent-telco scale. Think 20M subs, not 20k.
>
>
I've heard Redback aren't so good anymore. We are very happy with Cisco
(ASR1000s) and Juniper (MX480s) for this function.
Cheers,
James.
