<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Hi Robert,<div><br></div><div>I‘m not too much into the details of the test. While Arista was out quite soon (lack of MPLS) we focused on Cisco NCS-55A2 which fulfilled our needs.</div><div><br></div><div>However when it came to pricing the offer of Cisco was +1 on the seventh digit compared to Extreme SLX-9640 (we need to buy ~80 devices) so we started to reconsider the SLX, despite the first tests were not too promising. Maybe there is new software out which fixes the most annoying issues. </div><div><br></div><div>The Ciscos simply exceed our budget, but I asked for a better deal which is still pending.</div><div><br></div><div>We‘re probably go to buy two or three SLX and bring them into real production and when they fail we sell them 2nd hand. At least we would have a better feeling before spending the money.</div><div><br></div><div>Ask me again for an update in about 8 weeks.<br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr">--<div>Fredy Kuenzler<div>Init7 (Switzerland) Ltd.</div></div><div>Technoparkstrasse 5</div><div>CH-8406 Winterthur</div><div>Switzerland</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.init7.net/">http://www.init7.net/</a></div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br>Am 24.08.2019 um 13:22 schrieb Robert Hass <<a href="mailto:robhass@gmail.com">robhass@gmail.com</a>>:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Fredy</div><div>Did you finished your testing of SLX 9640 ? Any feedback comparing to tested Arista or NCS ?</div><div><br></div><div>Thank a lot</div><div>Rob<br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 1:06 PM Fredy Kuenzler <<a href="mailto:kuenzler@init7.net">kuenzler@init7.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
We are exactly doing an extensive evaluation of the three devices<br>
mentioned. Not there yet, unfortunately.<br>
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Init7 (Switzerland) Ltd.<br>
AS13030<br>
Technoparkstrasse 5<br>
CH-8406 Winterthur<br>
Twitter: @init7 / @kuenzler<br>
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Am 03.06.19 um 12:50 schrieb Robert Hass:<br>
> Hi<br>
> I'm looking for users of new SLX 9640. We consider that platform as<br>
> MLXe replacement in Internet (full DFZ) Edge/Core segments. Any<br>
> problems / comments ?<br>
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> BTW. Did anyone compared SLX 9640 versus Arista 7280 or NCS 5501-SE<br>
> ? I'm also happy to hear feedback.<br>
> <br>
> Rob<br>
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