[c-nsp] Brocade VS Cisco

[harbor235]

Mark,

Can you elaborate on the ipv6 sw issues? We have some Foundry and we are
getting ready
for a limited ipv6 rollout?

Mike

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 6:14 AM, Mark Tinka <mtinka at globaltransit.net>wrote:

> On Thursday, August 11, 2011 09:42:39 PM Bradley Williamson
> wrote:
>
> > We are looking at Brocade, Cisco, and Juniper for a
> > couple of upcoming projects and I am familiar with both
> > Cisco and Juniper, but not so much with Brocade. We have
> > a few of their small switches in our network, but that’s
> > about the extent of my experience.
>
> When I joined my current employer back in '07, we had it all
> - Foundry, Cisco, Juniper, ALU, Extreme, Xyplex, Packeteer,
> Huawei, you name it.
>
> After a while, we figured life was easier with just 2
> vendors. We've been a Cisco and Juniper house ever since.
> And, indeed, life has certainly been easier.
>
> We flirted with Brocade's CES/CER2000 platform when looking
> for a Metro-E box that had decent IP/MPLS support. For the
> most part, these boxes are fine, especially since they can
> provide 512,000 FIB entries for IPv4, not available at the
> time, and you could get up to 48x port in a 1U chassis.
>
> However, a couple of software issues, particularly with IS-
> IS and IPv6, were less than welcome. But these are problems
> that can be solved.
>
> In the end, we figured that staying with just 2 vendors was
> simpler, even though the Brocade could have been cheaper.
>
> Mark.
>
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