On 15 Feb 2018, at 20:55, David Farrell wrote:
I'm just starting to evaluate the options out there, for various
reasons I
need NOS with a 'traditional' CLI that network engineers would be
familiar
with as well as all the API bells and whistles. I've been leaning
towards
IP Infusion's OcNOS, and have seen coverage of both LINX and BT
evaluating
that. The context here is looking to transition from a old-school STP
based
DC LAN towards EVPN w/ VXLAN and taking a look around to see what's
available alongside Juniper/Cisco offerings... Any experiences,
positive or
negative would be be useful. I've been doing some research but thought
I'd
ask the clueful here.
You should definitely investigate Arista. It isn’t a whitebox
solution, however has an improved ‘traditional’ CLI and is really an
industry leader in DC networking.
We’ve been running Arista (w/IP core and VXLAN) at LONAP since the
launch of the 100GE product in 2016 with great results. In our case, the
cost per port is above the cheaper low buffer trident/tomahawk solutions
- it is only recently that the whitebox vendors have started to add
larger-buffer products.
https://people.ucsc.edu/~warner/buffer.html is a good resource comparing
various hardware.
After some time out in the wilderness, I look forward to seeing folks
at
UKNOF 40 :)
See you there! :)
