[AusNOG] Deciding on Juniper vs. Brocade

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On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 4:29 PM, Tony Wicks <tony at wicks.co.nz> wrote:

> 4200’s virtual chassis with 4550’s over VCP and 1/10G ports. They are
> older but have a more comprehensive layer2 and layer3 feature set. It often
> takes a year or so for some of the lesser used features to be supported in
> the newer devices (check the specs that everything you need is in there if
> you go for the 4300). The 4200-24F is all SFP, and the 4550 can come in all
> SFP/+.
>
>
>
> *From:* AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] *On Behalf Of *Dave
> Finster
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 5 August 2014 6:16 p.m.
> *To:* Peter Childs
> *Cc:* ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
> *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] Deciding on Juniper vs. Brocade
>
>
>
> We upgraded from our EX4200 units to EX4300s at our main corporate office
> once the cabling arrangements got out of hand in our server room. Both are
> good switches, but the 4200s didn’t come with any fibre options and could
> only 'virtual chassis’ with other 4200 units via a dedicated VCP channel on
> the back. We had three racks and were running quite long CAT6 cables from 2
> of the racks into the one with the 4200s in them. We instead opted for a
> single EX4300 as a top of rack switch for the two server racks and 3 x
> EX4300 for end-user terminations. The two top-of-rack switches are
> connected back to the end-user switches by 10 gigabit optics (official
> Juniper) and the end-user switches are interconnected using the ports on
> the back. All 5 switches operate in a virtual chassis.
>
>
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