[c-nsp] Extreme vs. Cisco

[john matijevic]

Hello Team,
I have worked with the Extreme, runs very well. I have also worked with
Cisco. Extreme can be configured command similar to Cisco. Price wise you
may get better deal with Extreme.
Sincerely,
John


On 3/31/06, Drew Weaver <drew.weaver at thenap.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Drew Weaver wrote:
>
> >       I think you might be missing the point which is that
> historically
> > extreme equipment performs nowhere near its stated performance
> > limitations. So whatever the stated performance was at the time that
> we
> > bought a 6808 for $175,000 it wasn't able to meet that performance.
> > Whereas we have seen no difficulties in getting Cisco gear to do what
> it
> > is stated it can do without really messing with it in any way.
>
> This is not my experience. What part of the stated performance doesn't
> the
> 6808 meet?
>
> ---
>
>        Well when we purchased the 6808s, Extreme claimed they would
> handle millions of packets per second in Layer 3. I've been able to push
> "MAYBE" 30000 - 50000 before I see what I consider meltdown; and at this
> point the FIB is at the point that the extreme engineers describe as
> 'full'.
>
>        I realize you can change the prefix length, and this and that;
> but why should you have to? That's the real point. I do use quite a few
> of the Layer2 summits just to bridge traffic (price point!) and
> occasionally I may use a 24e3 if price is a concern and they're solid as
> expected. So kudos for that, but to that end I never logged into them or
> anything I just took them out of the box and plugged Cat5 and power
> cables into them.
>
> Thanks,
> -Drew
>
>
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John Matijevic, CCIE #13254
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