[c-nsp] New Joiner - ME3600X and tools

[Leigh Harrison]

Hello there group,

 

I'm new and wanted to drop a note to say hello.

 

I work for a service provider over in the UK and although not new to
Cisco, I'm pretty new to Service Provider environments, I've been a
member of the cisco-voip group before.

 

First question then: 

We're just about to buy a job lot of ME3600X's - anyone using them and
any feedback on them (especially on them running IPv6)?

 

And Second questions whilst I'm on:

What tools are you guys using (ideally open source ones) to keep an eye
on your networks?  (Especially Jitter)

 

We have a full Cisco network setup here being monitored by Solarwinds,
which we also use to monitor CPE equipment too.  But I've installed us a
Debian server running smokeping.  I'm using the TelnetIOSPing to login
into various network nodes and graph latency over the core - check it
out if you've not seen it before.

 

Cheers Group!

Leigh H