Colton, can you post some examples of the Whitebox/OS examples that you were looking at in that performance tier? -----Original Message----- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Colton Conor Sent: Friday, April 20, 2018 7:46 AM To: Josh Reynolds <josh@kyneticwifi.com> Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> Subject: Re: China Showdown Huawei vs ZTE Josh, I like the whitebox route, but I can't find anything that will come close price wise. Example, Huawei S6720 with 24 10G ports, 2 40G ports, and full MPLS operating system from Huawei is $3500 out the door with a lifetime warranty. I can't even find a whitebox hardware, not even accounting for the OS, that is close to that price. Most 48 Port 10G with 6 40G uplinks (so double this huawei unit) are in the $5k range, and then you have to buy an operating system costing a couple more grand. Choices are limited on whitebox operating systems that support MPLS. There might be some FibeStore models that come close to this price, but FS.com is a Chinese company too, so that's no better than ZTE or Huawei. On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 7:34 AM, Josh Reynolds <josh@kyneticwifi.com> wrote:
Why not just go the whitebox route and pick your NOS of choice?
Far cheaper, and far more flexible.
On Fri, Apr 20, 2018, 7:28 AM Colton Conor <colton.conor@gmail.com> wrote:
Of the two large Chinese Vendors, which has the better network operating system? Huawei is much larger that ZTE is my understanding, but larger does not always mean better.
Both of these manufactures have switches and routers. I doubt we will use their routing products anytime soon, but the switching products with MPLS are what we are exploring. Price wise both of these vendors seem to have 10G MPLS capable switches that are a 1/4 of the price of a Cisco or Juniper wants to charge.
On the Huawei side looks like the S6720 is a fit. On the ZTE side, it looks like the ZXR10 5960 Series is a fit.
Has anyone had experience with either of these two switches? How do they compare?
Also, for each independent brand, is their switching network operating system the same as their routing network operating system that their routers run?