On 12 November 2015 at 23:50, CiscoNSP List <[email protected]> wrote: > We recently went from the old Cisco 2500's -> Opengear (As pstn modems were > getting impossible to source) - Opengears support > pstn/3g/4g/eth/fibre/wireless/vpn etc, so they are quite versatile...
I get that, at job-2 I rooted for Opengear, but MGMT didn't want to introduce another vendor, which forced to look at other options. My main reason why I was driving Cyclades at job-3 and Opengear in job-2 was that I wanted persistent logging of console messages and I wanted multiplexing of console port (so that you can always connect to it, even if previous person went for a coffee), and these features are not available on CSCO. However after discovering 'conserver', I now greatly prefer real router with async ports and conserver. Simply due to OPEX reductions by having no special case device in the network, and as said multiple WAN options, like E1. job-2 was selling DMVPN/IPSEC to customers so we didn't need to develop any tooling, train any people, worry about config backups etc. Just existing DMVPN/IPSEC tunnel to typical CPE, and we can produce OOB CPE with no new OPEX. I don't think I'll ever look back. Hopefully in future CMP style solution is available everywhere, and we can finally say goodbye to RS232. -- ++ytti _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
