Hi Scott what do you think about Brocade ?? On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Scott Granados <[email protected]>wrote:
> I'd have to second this! > > Also and this may be a preference thing but JunOS in general is easier for > me to connect with mentally for some reason. I think it's just because > there's so much BSD under the hood and it just feels more natural in terms > of operating and configuring. You have to be careful of bugs though and bad > obvious ones at that. I've seen branches of the EX4200 code released with > broken rapid spanning tree as just an example. You get a good solid release > for the features you need though and that great interface and they are fun > to work with not to mention easy to work with across different platforms. > > I'd take Cisco though over Foundry if you don't have Juniper as an option. > My experience has been that Cisco provides much better support and a more > complete feature set deployed somewhat logically. My experiences with > Foundry support on the fast Iron / Server Iron and similar was totally > lacking. I got one support tech who didn't even understand the basics of > link aggregation. Cisco has always provided good switches across the whole > range. Of the two, I would hands down take Cisco and you know you'll get > good support. > > > > > -----Original Message----- From: krunal shah > Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2011 10:40 AM > To: Mohamed A. Monsef > Cc: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [c-nsp] what is best data center vendor ? > > QFabric from Juniper.... Its indeed an engineering masterpiece. > > Listen to best resource to learn about it. > http://packetpushers.net/show-**51-juniper-qfabric/<http://packetpushers.net/show-51-juniper-qfabric/> > Krunal > > > On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Mohamed A. Monsef > <[email protected]>**wrote: > > Hello Experts >> >> I'm studying data center products of different vendors and i see Cisco is >> marketing Nexus family switches >> as the best switches can support virtualization and cloud computing >> applications in data center >> However i see Brocade has a large portfolio also with multiple success >> stories but no fabric solution is available for now >> what is the best vendor ? >> if anyone has experience with both vendors i need to hear your opinion >> ______________________________**_________________ >> cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] >> https://puck.nether.net/**mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp<https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp> >> archive at >> http://puck.nether.net/**pipermail/cisco-nsp/<http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/**mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp<https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp> > archive at > http://puck.nether.net/**pipermail/cisco-nsp/<http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/> > -- * -- Eng. Mohamed A. Monsef Cisco Networks Engineer CCNP® - CCIP® - CCDP® CS-RSSS® - ITIL® ISO/IEC 27002® Cell Phone : +2 010 677 2 887 Land Line : +2 02 267 42 453 * _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
