[AusNOG] Brocade experience

Cameron Daniel cdaniel at nurve.com.au
Wed Sep 24 11:33:20 EST 2014


Have used the MLX and CER platforms with a fairly wide variety of third 
party and coloured optics with no major issues. DOM support can vary but 
that's usually on the transceiver rather than the equipment

Cheers
Cameron

On 2014-09-24 10:14 am, Tom Lanyon wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Looking for some experiences with Brocade gear.
> 
> We're looking at MLXe MR2 with 10GX8-X line cards and also the 
> CER-2000-RT.
> 
> Does anyone have any xWDM coloured optics running in these?  Is the
> Brocade kit generally OK with third-party vendor transceivers?
> 
> Also, we've shied away from ISSU and redundant RPs in the past,
> preferring totally separate boxes for redundancy instead - is this
> reflected in the MLXe gear, or is it worth looking at redundant
> management modules and switch fabric modules?
> 
> Thanks,
> Tom
> 
> 
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