[AusNOG] Deciding on Juniper vs. Brocade

[Tom Storey]

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:
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> On 30 Jul 2014, at 04:15, Rhys Hanrahan <rhys at nexusone.com.au> wrote:
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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> Software reliability (we’re nowhere near bleeding edge) is good, hardware reliability is acceptable.
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> Andy
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