[AusNOG] Deciding on Juniper vs. Brocade

[Christopher Pollock]

Hi Rhys,

Any reason you're looking at the EX3300/EX4300 over the 32/4200?  You may
find them better value/featureset for your dollar.

Cheers,

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On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 5:25 AM, Tom Storey <tom at snnap.net> wrote:

> In my own personal experience, the Brocade CLI is Cisco like, but
> annoyingly nothing like it. Sometimes what you instinctively think you
> should be able to do, you cant. You cant assume a book has the same
> contents based on its cover in this particular scenario, but I guess
> like any other vendor its just a matter of learning the differences.
>
> On 30 July 2014 18:27, Andy Davidson <andy at nosignal.org> wrote:
> >
> > On 30 Jul 2014, at 04:15, Rhys Hanrahan <rhys at nexusone.com.au> wrote:
> >
> >> I'm looking for people's recommendations that could be given to pick
> one over the other, as I'm having a tough time deciding. Based on the
> technical specs, and feature listings of both sets of hardware, I can't
> find a major technical reason to pick one over the other - they are mostly
> pretty closely matched for what we need. So I'm more focused on trying to
> find out what people's experiences are generally, so I can get a "safety in
> numbers" sort of approach.
> >
> > We took 5 vendors through to a detailed drill down when we built the
> 100% fully automated wholesale carrier at www.allegro.net and Juniper had
> the most complete automation/api, so we went with those guys.  It’s good
> stuff.  We use netconf over ssh rather than their orchestration abstraction
> stuff (like Space) but I like it.
> >
> > Software reliability (we’re nowhere near bleeding edge) is good,
> hardware reliability is acceptable.
> >
> > Andy
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