[c-nsp] Experience with Lenovo switching, anyone?

[Alex Moya]

Check out Fortinet, they have switches and are very good

On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 2:06 PM Gert Doering <gert at greenie.muc.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 03:13:22PM +0200, Patrick M. Hausen wrote:
> > we are looking for alternatives to the two large vendors
> > that are cost efficient for a small hosting company.
> >
> > Does anyone have practical experience with Lenovo
> > ENOS and is willing to share?
> >
> > With a limited budget we prefer to cut features rather
> > than stability ;-)
>
> What features do you need?  "Switching" or "full L3 routing"?  And
> if routing, how large the table?
>
>
> > Yet multi-chassis (at least dual-chassis) LACP or similar
> > or some modern ???fabric??? architecture are necessary.
> > I don???t want to go back to only STP ???
>
> We've moved to Arista for the "1RU, lots of 10/25GE ports, MLAG"
> places in our network, and we are very happy.  Stuff works like a
> breeze - and if it doesn't (we found a bug with IPv6 and OSPFv3,
> of course) ATAC is really pleasant to work with.
>
> The only negative aspect so far: for "mostly the same hardware",
> Arista pricepoint is slightly above Juniper (7050SX* vs. EX4600/QFX5120
> etc.) - but especially the time saved with niceties like "MLAG that just
> works" has been worth the extra CAPEX already.
>
> gert
> --
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> doubted
>  it myself till I met a computer with a sense of humor."
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>
> Gert Doering - Munich, Germany
> gert at greenie.muc.de
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Alex Moya