We replaced our Extreme gear with Brocade several years ago. We're
getting ready to swap out some MLXes' with SLXs'. We've looked at
Arista hard but just can't seem to justify the 3x price premium.
Aaron
On 3/12/2019 3:21 AM, George B wrote:
I suppose they could keep some customers if they went with some sort
of an attractive trade up program for X2 cards. There are a lot of
networks out there that don't take a full table, though, and if you
study the CIDR report you will find several networks out there
announcing /16 nets and even larger with a more specific for every
single one of their /24 nets with an identical AS PATH. It looks like
the more specifics aren't multi-homed and they are just worried about
route hijacking, I suppose. But if I filter everything longer than
the aggregate, I'll never see a hijacking attempt on one of the more
specifics anyway. One can clobber a lot of unnecessary routes that way
but it's still really a game of whack a mole. The K series line
cards and rack switches from Arista have been pretty stable so far.
Our old MLX units have really been workhorses over the years, though.
We had one failure of an 8x10G card in the past 3 years.
Extreme never really impressed me at layer 3 anyway and I always saw
them as best at layer 2 inside the data center. In fact. the place
where I worked way back in the day was an Extreme shop until I needed
a rather simple BGP option (maximum-paths to do multiple paths to a
destination) and they said BGP really wasn't on their road map and
that's when I called Foundry. It was Extreme that actually pushed me
to Foundry and eventually Brocade in the first place. We're in the
process of forklifting the last of the MLX units out this year, though.
On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 4:21 PM Mike Leber <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Starting several years ago we switched from 1M route cards and chassis
to 2M route cards and chassis, so those sites will be fine for a while
(depending on growth).
That left quite a few XMR 8000s and 4000s out there, which we replaced
with SLX 9540s and 9640s.
We've been not so vocal about it because just like with any brand new
platform we end up being essentially a free outsourced testing service
for our router vendors.
At this point I'm happy with the progress (new software versions with
fixes) enough to post about it.
The 9640s support 4M routes.
Mike.
On 1/28/19 1:31 PM, "Rolf Hanßen" wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I guess most of the users simply replaced their Brocade boxes with
> Juniper, Cisco or Arista and have no need to use that list here
anymore.
> ;)
>
> kind regards
> Rolf
>
>> Is there a new list for Foundry/Brocade/Extreme?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> joe
>>
>>
>> Joe McGuckin
>> ViaNet Communications
>>
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