Is your burstable bandwidth cost high enough to pay 100K for a gear just to meet the commitments ? NAGIOS/CACTI monitoring alerts sent to someone (which may be hired help from any place in the world) would probably beat that in cost effectiveness.
The performance requirement is where a line is drawn between manual configuration and automated BGP manipulation. Rubens On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Drew Weaver <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > As my Avaya CNA/Route Science box begins to seriously age, and without the > support of Avaya for 'Service Provider' uses of the product, I have been > looking for alternatives to the product. > > The value we get from this product is mainly in the ability to easily manage > our bandwidth commitments in a hands off way without having to manually > manipulate anything. I have no real illusions that the 'performance' side of > things is 'arguable' at best with these sorts of products due to the nature > of the Internet. > > Internap to me stands out as essentially the only alternative to this > product, but they have been tremendously difficult to work with, they won't > allow us to demo a unit to see if it offers the same functionality as our > current solution. The reason they won't allow us to a demo a unit is because > they 'don't stock them'. So basically they have 0 units until someone orders > one, that is fine if that is their policy but that hasn't really been our > experience with other hardware vendors that want close to 100K for a piece of > niche equipment. > > My questions are: > > -What are other people doing who currently use or used the Avaya/RS product > in the past? > -Does anyone know of any competition in this space (aside from hiring a guy > that sits there and does this for us manually)? > -Has Cisco's OER/PFR made any progress in the last few years (is anyone using > it?) > > Sorry to disturb, > > -Drew > > >
