[AusNOG] Deciding on Juniper vs. Brocade

[Peter Childs]

At a glance the EX4300 appears better in terms of everything (including value) than EX4200 ?    Am I missing something?

(it appears ex4300 can not 'virtual chassis it with ex4200 devices, if that is important ..)

Be interesting in anyone's opinion that has 4300's in the field.

From: Christopher Pollock <chris at ionetworks.com.au<mailto:chris at ionetworks.com.au>>
Date: Tuesday, 5 August 2014 3:12 pm
To: Tom Storey <tom at snnap.net<mailto:tom at snnap.net>>
Cc: "ausnog at lists.ausnog.net<mailto:ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>" <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net<mailto:ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>>
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Deciding on Juniper vs. Brocade

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.

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On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 5:25 AM, Tom Storey <tom at snnap.net<mailto: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<mailto:andy at nosignal.org>> wrote:
>
> On 30 Jul 2014, at 04:15, Rhys Hanrahan <rhys at nexusone.com.au<mailto: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<http://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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