I've used all but the Brocade in past lives. It really depends on your requirements. Cisco has a nice plaform that supports a lot of topologies and features, but you will pay for it. Adva will be quite a bit cheaper, and they were always pretty aggressive on price to try to win the deals. Not as broad of a platform and not as fancy as Cisco, but finctional. MRV's offering was more of a low-cost down-and-dirty solution. Worked fine in a set it and forget it network, but in spans where we saw a lot of adds, changes, moves, etc, there tended to be a lot more service-affecting maintenances to changed filters, attenuators, etc. This was quite a while ago, sothey may have an updated line that does more of those things through software, though. On our larger networks we usually stuck with Cisco for two reasons: It was easier to find engineers that knew the Cisco line than any of the others, and upper management had the (probably mistaken) idea in their heads that it gave us more negotiating leverage with Cisco when it came to other equipment on our network. Again, really depends on your requirements: distances, number of locations/nodes, interface requirements, bandwidth requirements, budget, etc.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fredrik Jacobsson Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 9:45 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [c-nsp] WDM equipment Greetings. I'm looking into WDM-equipment to save fiber costs. Using ethernet and fibrechannel, mainly Cisco and Brocade. Are there anyone here with experience with equipment from Adva or Mrv? Happy? Thanks /Fredrik _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
