[c-nsp] Huawei instead of Cisco

[Dobbins, Roland]

On May 12, 2010, at 6:21 AM, Felix Nkansah wrote:

> The customer would have loved to go with Cisco 7609s, but is contemplating Huawei's because of their low prices.


7600/6500 have serious caveats with regards to NetFlow, uRPF, & ACL construction which eliminate them from serious consideration as edge devices, IMHO.

I've no hands-on operational experience w/Huawei gear, but have heard feedback from others that it's quite buggy and has stability issues.  YMMV.

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