[f-nsp] Where have all the MLX/XMR users gone to?

[George B]

Rack space is the premium with me. A 7280R2K-48C6 gives me 48x10G plus
6x40/100G ports in 1U with 2 million routes vs 7U for an MLX-8.


On Tue, Mar 12, 2019, 11:49 Aaron <aaron at wholesaleinternet.net> wrote:

> I just got quotes for an Arista 7280R (48x 10Gbit and 6x 100Gbit) and an
> SLX9640.  Adding a port license to the 9640 to go to 8x 100G ports the
> Arista quote for just the base box (no service, optics, etc.) was 251%
> higher.
>
> Maybe I have the wrong sales rep at Arista and the right one at Extreme?
>
> Aaron
>
>
> On 3/12/2019 1:39 PM, Richard Laager wrote:
> > On 3/12/19 1:19 PM, Aaron wrote:
> >> We replaced our Extreme gear with Brocade several years ago. We're
> >> getting ready to swap out some MLXes' with SLXs'.  We've looked at
> >> Arista hard but just can't seem to justify the 3x price premium.
> > Unless Extreme has massively dropped the price or Arista has massively
> > increased their prices, there's no reason that equivalent Arista gear
> > should be 3x the price of an SLX, and that doesn't match up with my
> > experience.
> >
> > I ended up with the Arista 7280SR (48-ports of 10G, 6 ports of
> > short-range 100G in a 1RU fixed configuration) and it's been working
> well.
> >
>
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