Mark, I had a chance to look at the Alcatel-Lucent 7450 ESS-12 in December and I thought it was a piece of art, Do you have any stats or information on how its performing on the Global market.
My feeling is that Alcatel really "Arrived" after the merger(takeover) with Lucent, They are Switched ON -----Original Message----- From: Mark Tinka [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 10:43 AM To: James Byaruhanga Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LUG] The Switch is ON!!! On Wednesday 30 January 2008 14:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The Nexus 7000 Series seem to be targeted to the same segment space As > the Extreme boxes, Not quite service provider but they should do Well > on the Metro Ethernet service delivery as Edge boxes given that They > don’t support MPLS. As edge boxes that don't need MPLS-based services, they would work, but with the added expense of an Enterprise license, which would provide support for IP routing (base license doesn't support this). I wonder why vendors do funny things like this... For service providers who need MPLS at the edge, one may trunk the port to a Layer 3 device, upstream, which makes the 7010 "a very expensive" switch. In this case, a Cisco 7609-S or the Juniper MX-960 still looks more attractive - but then again, Cisco don't expect the 7010 to compete against their legacy Metro-E platforms, or competitors' brands in the same class, for that matter. Mark.
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