[huawei-nsp] Is there anybody on this list?

Wed Feb 20 12:27:58 EST 2013

I looked at the Huawei boxes and they were all awful. Either too huge, expensive or lacking in features. Additionally, they have crazy limitations on the number of l2 vpn connections (8 on some boxes!) which made them unusable for me.

I ended up with the Juniper SRX220, SRX240 and now the ACX boxes. The SRX220 is very well priced, you get 12 ports of Gig Ethernet and it has all the various MPLS/edge features. The ACX boxes are similar, just a lot faster.

I have some Huawei PGPx16 routers though, they seem OK, a little quirky but isn't everything!? A bit of a bizarre power arrangement though.

Their little 1U switches seem to work OK though.

--
Leigh

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From: Pshem Kowalczyk [pshem.k at gmail.com]
Sent: 08 March 2012 23:42
To: Leigh Porter
Cc: Bjørn Mork; huawei-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [huawei-nsp] Is there anybody on this list?

On 6 March 2012 22:52, Leigh Porter <leigh.porter at ukbroadband.com> wrote:

> But that aside, I'm looking for a metro/edge router for MPLS services. Perhaps something like the CX200/CX300. Any comments?

My experience hasn't been too good so far, besides the CX200/CX300 are
going EOL. If need to buy a Huawei box I suggest looking at the
CX600-X1/2/4 ... family.  The don't exactly have the same
code/capabilities across the family but might be able to do the trick.
If you're not after a Huawei a Cisco ASR901/903 might be a good
option.

kind regards
Pshem

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