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Re: Cisco CRS-1 vs Juniper 1600 vs Huawei NE5000E

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pekka Savola)
Fri Aug 3 17:09:15 2007

Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 00:06:53 +0300 (EEST)
From: Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>
To: Robert Boyle <robert@tellurian.com>
cc: ALEJANDRO ESQUIVEL RODRIGUEZ <alejandro_esquivel@costarricense.cr>,
        nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <1186152578_475313@mail1.tellurian.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Robert Boyle wrote:
> At 02:17 AM 8/3/2007, you wrote:
>> Hi,, group
>>
>>   I need some help.
>>
>>    Which equipment is better ( perfomance, availability,
>> scalability, features, Support, and Price ($$$) ) ???
>>
>>   Some experience in the real life ????
>
> Dependent on your interface needs, if GigE, 10G, (40G & 100G in the future) 
> and POS are all you need, include the Foundry XMR in your eval too. Very 
> solid software and excellent support at a price point which is significantly 
> lower than C & J. I don't know the pricing for H.

Any experiences of Foundry routing w/ more complex protocols (PIM, 
MSDP, various IPv6 stuff)?

The last time we tried running non-C/J as a router was a very Extreme 
experience and we swore never again to touch similar router underdogs 
in the future.

-- 
Pekka Savola                 "You each name yourselves king, yet the
Netcore Oy                    kingdom bleeds."
Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings

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