[f-nsp] [Fwd: Foundry XMR/MLX Experience - Update]

[Cliff Bowles]

Our company just went through a similar eval. We needed a high-speed
core to push 10gb across our new metro DWDM for an active-active data
center project.

 

We compared Juniper MX960, Cisco 6509, Force-10 E600 and Foundry MLX-8.

 

Cisco - can't hang. The 96-port snake test (we sent a RFC2544 1Gb stream
through 96 ports across the fabric nuked it pretty good, and the frame
loss when the primary Sup was pulled was horrible.

 

Juniper - expensive despite deep discounts. Performed very well, but not
enough to justify the price. Used the newly-released 48-port copper
blades and found they couldn't maintain line-rate when using 64-byte
packets. Juniper confirms

 

Force-10 - hitless upon hardware failures, very high performance. One
challenge in Policy-Based Routing, but they just use a different method
to do the same thing. Would be the runner up except for financial
concerns, support contract was per-blade, not per-chassis, much higher
than foundry

 

Foundry - we've used a limited deployment of RX-series. The MLX
performed flawlessly, the sales staff was excellent and the price was
second-lowest. On a bang-for-the-buck graph, they were the choice for
us. We have 8 units on order now.

 

Hope this helps someone. 

 

(For the record, nobody wanted to be the guinea pig for the Nexus, so we
left it off the eval)

 



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