That's probably a reason, also the X2 card pricing is not so attractive.
I also wonder when / if they will start a trade-in program for MLX to
SLX, but seems they missed this opportunity with existing clients
already. :(
Additionally the SLX9850/9540 got its 1.5M route update late (March
2018?) and the SLX9640 is kind of being late to the party, too (but
still a cool product!), so that we went for the SLX9540 for peering
locations (and they needed 3 months to ship … ).
For one point I thought that some kind of adapter card, that makes X2
cards work inside the SLX chassis, would protect a future investment and
also running the power-pc based NetIron-OS inside the KVM hypervisor
would be neat.
I also think that marketing or product management of the former Brocade
products are (purposely?) pretty weak and besides they are talking about
inside architecture or visibility (SLX) platform, the hardware products
are hardly visible or known at all. The last one-day sales presentation
I have attended a year after the transition, they didn't even mention
former "Brocade" products and talked about Extreme becoming THE
"software / analytics vendor" for generic network devices…
Well, what about being both? A software vendor and a hardware vendor
(with touch control… )? The Brocade buy-out was such a steal and then
they forgot to bring the customers into a safe harbor. Still to be
mentioned that the whole Broadcom-Brocade-Qualcomm-US-Government
disaster may had its own impact, too.
So what they really need is a momentum shift. Bring the SLX-line out on
the road where it matters and it can work, sponsor the right events,
understand why people currently don't choose the products and work on
this issues, show valid upgrade paths for current customers and develop
a strategy for not loosing more customers to other vendors, advance the
development (5 months for a critical bug?) and hand out the Brocade
strategy behind 2020.
Jörg
On 28 Jan 2019, at 22:06, i3D.net - Martijn Schmidt wrote:
I think everyone is phasing out their X-scalability hardware in
anticipation of the global routing table growing larger than 786k IPv4
routes. These boxes don't have a long life ahead of them as a DFZ
router, unless you only use X2-scalability cards in your chassis.. and
with operators essentially being forced to upgrade to a completely
different platform (SLX or $other_vendor), Brextreme's advantage of
being the incumbent vendor in the network is pretty much completely
negated.
Finally, as a BDA, let me tell you that being stabbed in the back when
it comes to my certification record has not benefited my opinion of
the new owner(s) of the Brocade diaspora. Why they decided to not only
pull the plug on the entire Brocade education program, but also delete
the historical certification database from CertMetrics, is beyond me.
It has become impossible to check the validity of years' worth of
Brocade credentials.
Best regards,
Martijn
On 28 January 2019 21:35:56 CET, Youssef Bengelloun-Zahr
<[email protected]> wrote:
Nope, just very little chatter.
BR.
Le 28 janv. 2019 à 20:32, joe mcguckin <[email protected]> a écrit :
Is there a new list for Foundry/Brocade/Extreme?
Thanks,
joe
Joe McGuckin
ViaNet Communications
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650-207-0372 cell
650-213-1302 office
650-969-2124 fax
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