Our core business is not as a service provider, as in selling services to others, but we act as a service provider providing services for the various customers in our internal network that we support. Our core used to be an all Cisco Core. a few years back the decision was made to replace this with Alcatel-Lucent IPD products. I can say we are happy that we did replace the Cisco core, and we have had a very good experience with the IPD product line. I am sure others can attest to this also. The features and functionality along with the reliability have been very good, and in my opinion they have a strong product. Our edge at this point is a mixture of Cisco access switches, and we also still have some Cisco Distribution. On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Brandon Kim <brandon.kim@brandontek.com>wrote:
Hello gents:
I wanted to put this out there for all of you. Our network consists of a mixture of Cisco and Extreme equipment.
Would you say that it's fair to say that if you are serious at all about being a service provider that your core equipment is Cisco based?
Am I limiting myself by thinking that Cisco is the "de facto" vendor of choice? I'm not looking for so much "fanboy" responses, but more of a real world experience of what you guys use that actually work and does the job.....
No technical questions here, just general feedback. I try to follow the Tolly Group who compares products, and they continually show that Cisco equipment is a poor performer in almost any equipment compared to others, I find that so hard to believe.....
Thanks!
Brandon