[c-nsp] Brocade VS Cisco

[Mark Tinka]

On Friday, August 12, 2011 01:59:27 AM Saku Ytti wrote:

> I'm personally not seeing cisco tax myself. When I look
> boxes which meet my demand, everything is available
> roughly in same price range, assuming sales droid can
> realistically expect you to choose something else than
> Cisco.

And what we've seen is that, pretty much, you can get just 
about the same pricing from both Cisco and Juniper for 
roughly the same amount of kit.

The other day, only about US$10,000 separated our decision 
between both vendors, and yet it was a non-price reason that 
made us choose one over the other.

With everything going Ethernet, 10Gbps being the standard 
for even medium-sized networks, there is very little 
hardware differences among vendors. What we're now seeing is 
philosophical differences in design that clearly show 
fighting between Cisco and Juniper.

Interesting stuff...

> My main complaint with Cisco last few years is that new
> boxes at FCS are incredibly feature poor and it takes
> too long to deliver feature parity to box you're trying
> to replace.

Indeed, and for us, the ME3600X/3800X is such a box, as was 
the ASR1000 when it first shipped (and which, even now, 
still doesn't have all the features you can find on a 7200).

But, as it were, Juniper are also facing the exact same 
problem. Newer hardware, many times, requires newer code, 
but this code would not support the same on-card feature 
that is available in older card for a previous line card 
model. It's mighty frustrating.

Mark.
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