On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 at 01:52, Jason Lixfeld <[email protected]> wrote:
> Don’t get me wrong, Cisco definitely owns their share of BS, but they seem to > be predictable in how they are going to screw you. Juniper will screw you, > but how they are going to screw you seems to be predictably unpredictable. I have to say this is entirely subjective and my subjective experience is rather different. But it is to be expected, if we would have very homogenous view on which vendor is superior, competing vendors would disappear. My subjective views where JNPR shines compared to market a) model driven configuration since day1, this is a big thing, much bigger than YANG or Netconf or whatever other automation hype is going on. Junos doesn't actively resist automation. b) Trio is the only platform I know how to protect control-plane so that I don't know how to break it c) very debuggable (CSCO is good too here, this is more complaint to Other Options). d) I will echo your sentiment about complexity and agree to it, junos gives a lot of power to the operator, where CSCO might have some specific feature they support, have a name for, and have single line config, JNPR doesn't have anything, because the feature has always been possible due to the inherent flexibility and expressiveness of the system. Some particular examples, BGP GTSM, VRF source selection, egress-acl-at-ingress, there are plenty of examples in this, but can be very involved to get right. I don't have any dislike for CSCO, I'm sure you can support your business case with both vendors, or Nokia or Huawei. Subjectively for SP role, I think Nokia and Huawei have best port/chassis options. I think Juniper has best NPU and best NOS on the market. For SP role particularly, from the big names, today I think CSCO has least attractive portfolio, but this is normal timing related thing, at some point any vendor is behind, once they release some new generation stuff they'll move ahead and start regressing. I believe ANET has best practices in developing software and considering how young they are on SP market, it's quite impressive where they are. -- ++ytti _______________________________________________ juniper-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/juniper-nsp
