Re: Benefits (and Detriments) of Standardizing Network Equipment in a Global Organization

On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 3:10 PM, Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org> wrote:

2 Vendor

Can be implemented multiple ways, for instance 1 vendor per site alternating sites, or gear deployed in pairs with one from each vendor up and down the stack.

An alternative multi-vendor approach is to use 1 vendor per stack layer, but alternate layer to layer. That is; Vendor A edge router, Vendor B firewall, Vendor A/C switches, Vendor D anti-SPAM software, etc. This doesn't address the bug impact issue as well as it alleviates the vendor "ownership" issue though...