[c-nsp] Brocade Vs Cisco

[Scott Granados]

You know that's interesting, I've been following this thread but I totally 
agree with you.  I very much like Juniper on the core side and I really like 
their switches but it's hard to beat devices like the 7200 for circuit 
aggregation at the edges.  Another place where I think Cisco wins hands down 
is on the VPN side.  I really got to dig in to the ASA product line during 
my last gig and with some help from some really skilled folks on this list I 
really got pretty good with the devices pretty fast.  I've used te Juniper 
SRX line for similar functions and the ASA just makes more sense, at least 
to me.

I just wish Cisco was wirespeed more than they are.  I don't see providing 
someone a gig interface but only be able to forward at a 3rd of that rate. 
Juniper does better in this area but then again I've found Junos to be more 
buggy, in surprisingly basic areas as well so it's a toss up.  I think your 
comment makes a lot of sense.


-----Original Message----- 
From: Ryan Finnesey
Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2011 7:54 PM
To: 'Derick Winkworth' ; 'Gert Doering'
Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Brocade Vs Cisco

If I have the option to engineer to our  requirements I would use cisco at
the edge and Juniper at the core.



Cheers

Ryan





From: Derick Winkworth [mailto:dwinkworth at att.net]
Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2011 9:08 AM
To: Gert Doering; Ryan Finnesey
Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Brocade Vs Cisco



Engineer to your requirements.  Cisco and Juniper are good vendors to have
for variety.





Derick Winkworth
CCIE #15672 (RS, SP), JNCIE-M #721
http://blinking-network.blogspot.com





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From: Gert Doering <gert at greenie.muc.de>
To: Ryan Finnesey <rfinnesey at gmail.com>
Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Sent: Fri, August 12, 2011 2:52:44 AM
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Brocade Vs Cisco

Hi,

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 09:00:32PM -0400, Ryan Finnesey wrote:
> What would be your preference between just Cisco or Juniper

"depends on what you want to do with it"

Recently, OS and TAC support quality at Juniper seriously went down the
drain, so the original reason to want Juniper "high quality operating
system and very motivated company to iron out the remaining wrinkles"
seems to have been lost...

OTOH, Cisco is still stuck in "we have too many operating systems and
we spend half our resources with BU in-fighting" mode - which, I guess,
will now be fixed by firing 10.000 folks from engineering so they won't
get in the way of the in-fighting anymore...

Right now, I'm not sure I'm trusting either company enough.

gert
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