[c-nsp] Huawei instead of Cisco

[Mikael Abrahamsson]

On Thu, 13 May 2010, Mark Tinka wrote:

> As an IP engineer, reiterating what Pshem said, they are just not yet 
> mature.

My take on this:

Huawei wants to win RFQ:s. Anything people usually put in their RFQs, 
Huawei will most likely have. If it's usually not in RFQs, it's quite 
likely it's not in there or it doesn't work very well.

People don't RFQ "working" CLI, so with Huawei ctrl-a and cltr-e doesn't 
work (windows keys home/end works though). Do you want to paste a lot of 
lines into the CLI? Forget it, Huawei employs a mechanism that overflows 
when there are more than 25 lines in the buffer it reads off of the TCP 
socket. It doesn't stop reading and let TCP buffer, it just overflows and 
throws away characters. When you say this is bad, the "solution" you get 
back is to emply line paste pause in your "terminal program" (when you're 
in an xterm this is kind of hard to do).

My guess is that Huawei sells a lot of turn-key solutions where people who 
run it are fairly fresh out of school and educated only on Huawei gear and 
with very little unix experience, so they don't lack what a lot of 
other network engineers with Unix backgrounds find lacking in their gear.

This also explains why the transmission/telephony/mobile people like their 
gear as well, because they usually work in GUI and not in CLI. Their 
interaction with the gear is usually so lacking I want to cry when I see 
it, but they're used to even worse so they're still happy.

-- 
Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se