[f-nsp] MLXe-4 vs ASR1006 vs MX80

[James Braunegg]

Dear All

Micron21 completed a three month in depth internal investigation between Brocade MLXe XMR the Cisco ASR1004 and the Juniper MX80 around 8 months ago, evaluating which product to invest in. If you wish to know specific details of our study please feel free to contact me directly.

In summary please find the below comments

To give you some background Micron21 is an Australian based Datacentre, we provide datacentre services at an extremely high density, our network is mission critical and supports some of the largest Australian companies, in saying that we are very proud in our decision choosing the Brocade MLXe XMR platform as our routing platform.

Brocade was the right choice for us and since our migration to the Brocade MLXe XMR platform we have also developed an amazing relationship between our company and many senior people within almost every department at Brocade.

In fact owning a Brocade solution makes us feel extremely proud that we choose Brocade, you can't help but smile even more when you see the Brocade One "rap" video knowing your part of an evolving revolution.

To be honest and unbiased Brocade hands down for our application within the datacentre environment was a much better product when you compare the raw processing power to almost anything on the market. Whilst Brocade might not have the "Marketing perception" or glossy paper brochures of the ASR or MX80 it truly is a much better product when you look the technical features you will actually use for a routing platform within a high density environment.

Kindest Regards

James Braunegg
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From: foundry-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:foundry-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Drew Weaver
Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 10:23 PM
To: foundry-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: [f-nsp] MLXe-4 vs ASR1006 vs MX80

Has anyone seen any bake offs, or side by side comparisons between the MLXe-4, ASR1006 or the MX80?

I am trying to pick a router for a small regional DC and these seem attractive but I don't know all of the caveats and subtleties.

Any thoughts?
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