Cisco shop here that is avidly converting to Juniper..... Paul -----Original Message----- From: Brandon Kim [mailto:brandon.kim@brandontek.com] Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 10:32 AM To: nanog group Subject: Is Cisco equpiment de facto for you? 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 =