Hi, run and don't walk away from the Brocade gear. It's been my experience
with the foundry products that there are many software bugs, the support is
lacking, and they have really odd limitations that you wouldn't expect.
Also, they tend to do things in a non standard way. Spanning tree for
example when Interoperating with any other vendor was a real PITA!
GO with Juniper or Cisco and leave the Brocade on the shelf.
Thanks
Scott
-----Original Message-----
From: Bradley Williamson
Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 9:45 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [c-nsp] Brocade Vs Cisco
Does anyone have any horror stories or gotcha's concerning Brocade? What
about success stories?
We are looking at Brocade, Cisco, and Juniper for a couple of upcoming
projects and I am familiar with both Cisco and Juniper, but not so much with
Brocade. We have a few of their small switches in our network, but that’s
about the extent of my experience.
We want to build an MPLS core capable of delivering triple-play services and
as part of that, we will be building our a MetroE network to provide
ethernet backhaul for mobile providers and also deliver L2VPN and L3VPN
services to our business customers.
I am a little skeptical of Brocade. I just do not understand how they can
provide the performance they claim at half the price of the other guys.
Any insight/advice would be appreciated.
Brad
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