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Thread Index Re: [isp-bgp] Survey- What platform do you use for BGP?
--- danno@... wrote:---------------- It seems today (and for the last decade or so) that Cisco and Juniper have dominated the WAN/BGP router market, but it's not necessarily safe to assume everyone is using either. I put together a few survey questions about this... and no, I don't work for a vendor. What do you use? Why? If you had your choice, would you stay with your current platform, or would you switch, and to what if so? ---------------------------------------------- Prior to 2001 I used cisco only, but haven't touched one since then. After that I have moved through Foundry, 3Com, Juniper and am about to move to Alcatel. I did not like the Foundry BigIron (2002-2004) as there were so many strange and hard to quantify bugs that I was afraid to try anything. I was at a university though, and there was no lab equipment. "Lab? Why do I need a lab when I have a production network to test on?" >;-) After that I moved to Juniper (JunOS and JunOSe) and have been on them from 2005 to the present time. I totally despise the ERX JunOSe platform while the JunOS platform is a router guy's dream. The fact that you can 'start shell' and drop into a specialized BSD shell even makes it cooler! We're building a new network with Alcatel 7750 and 7450, so I have only minimal experiences with them, but their promises are looking very good. I just hope they can provide what they promise. If I have my choice, I would not want to use just one platform. I would like to see better interoperability between vendors and use a wide range of routers without fear of the unknown. Besides the security aspect of a non-homogeneous network, it keeps me from being vendor-specific in my knowledge base and I feel that's a very important thing to maintain. scott To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. Attn: Discussion List Management 475 Park Avenue South New York, NY 10016 Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. Copyright 2007 Jupitermedia Corporation All Rights Reserved. <- Previous Message | Next Message -> Thread Index |
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