I’d prefer to buy the EX2300, but it doesn’t have PVLAN support presently, which in our management network is a hard requirement. EX2200 does the job brilliantly for now though!
> On 10/12/2017, at 9:10 AM, Saku Ytti <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey Christian, > > It's not just your two cents when you state anyone recommending them > do not know what they are talking about. > > Your information is highly anecdotal, we can take any company, any > product and we can find consumers who are extremely satisfied and > consumers who believe it's the worst option on the market. Often times > these consumers extrapolate too far, in both directions. > > Higher quality of data would measure PR count of EX2200 to EX2300 in > same period of life cycle. Why I personally would not invest on > EX2200, unless I can find really cheap gray ones, is simply because > this whole Marvell => Broadcom operation is rather large undertaking > and affects almost whole EX platform. Marvell is decidedly dead > platform in JNPR, and my concern, as customer, would be that my vendor > has decreased incentive to fix issues I have, because they can get > better ROI of engineering hours spent on Broadcom platforms. > > I fully believe that you have major issues on the platform, but how > widely your experience translates to other networks is not obvious. I > also fully believe EX2200 is more mature platform. It is trade-off you > must do after your lab the solutions, if you can get the latest > generation hardware working, of course you should invest on it, for > the longer amortisation times. If you cannot get it working, and no > other vendor is available, then buying dying platform can be > justified. > For what it is worth, I have no problems on EX2300 in simple L2 switch > scenario. I do not doubt that there are features and feature > combinations which are fragile. > > > > On 9 December 2017 at 21:29, Christian Scholz <[email protected]> wrote: >> I would only buy the EX2300 if somebody points a Gun in my Face - seriously! >> Anyone recommending a Device that purely relies on 15.1 Software does not >> even closely know what he is talking about... >> >> The 2300 is a Joke so far - We have 7 PR's open and weekly Core-Dumps... >> Stick with the EX2200 since the EX2200 is not EOL and the EX2300 is unusable >> until a fine Release (17.3 onwards) is available, fixing all the critical >> things. >> 15.1 is the new Windows Vista - unstable, unreliable and just a big joke - >> never ever ever ever use a 15.X in Production until you want to watch the >> World burn... >> >> Just my 2 cents... >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] >> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp > > > > -- > ++ytti > _______________________________________________ > juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp
