[j-nsp] What is your experience with the EX2200

[Nathan Ward]

I’d prefer to buy the EX2300, but it doesn’t have PVLAN support presently, which in our management network is a hard requirement. EX2200 does the job brilliantly for now though!

> On 10/12/2017, at 9:10 AM, Saku Ytti <saku at ytti.fi> wrote:
> 
> Hey Christian,
> 
> It's not just your two cents when you state anyone recommending them
> do not know what they are talking about.
> 
> Your information is highly anecdotal, we can take any company, any
> product and we can find consumers who are extremely satisfied and
> consumers who believe it's the worst option on the market. Often times
> these consumers extrapolate too far, in both directions.
> 
> Higher quality of data would measure PR count of EX2200 to EX2300 in
> same period of life cycle. Why I personally would not invest on
> EX2200, unless I can find really cheap gray ones, is simply because
> this whole Marvell => Broadcom operation is rather large undertaking
> and affects almost whole EX platform. Marvell is decidedly dead
> platform in JNPR, and my concern, as customer, would be that my vendor
> has decreased incentive to fix issues I have, because they can get
> better ROI of engineering hours spent on Broadcom platforms.
> 
> I fully believe that you have major issues on the platform, but how
> widely your experience translates to other networks is not obvious. I
> also fully believe EX2200 is more mature platform. It is trade-off you
> must do after your lab the solutions, if you can get the latest
> generation hardware working, of course you should invest on it, for
> the longer amortisation times. If you cannot get it working, and no
> other vendor is available, then buying dying platform can be
> justified.
> For what it is worth, I have no problems on EX2300 in simple L2 switch
> scenario. I do not doubt that there are features and feature
> combinations which are fragile.
> 
> 
> 
> On 9 December 2017 at 21:29, Christian Scholz <chs at ip4.de> wrote:
>> I would only buy the EX2300 if somebody points a Gun in my Face - seriously!
>> Anyone recommending a Device that purely relies on 15.1 Software does not
>> even closely know what he is talking about...
>> 
>> The 2300 is a Joke so far - We have 7 PR's open and weekly Core-Dumps...
>> Stick with the EX2200 since the EX2200 is not EOL and the EX2300 is unusable
>> until a fine Release (17.3 onwards) is available, fixing all the critical
>> things.
>> 15.1 is the new Windows Vista - unstable, unreliable and just a big joke -
>> never ever ever ever use a 15.X in Production until you want to watch the
>> World burn...
>> 
>> Just my 2 cents...
>> 
>> 
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