All the places I've worked in the past decade have been all Cisco shops for routing and switching, with a lot of Cisco use for security too (firewalls and IDS). Same with my current position, but we're switching to Juniper for all those product categories. Same or better performance, but 10-20% less cost. Additionally, I find the Juniper command line has more features that make operating and monitoring much more efficient. Also, JunOS has only one development train which means that the commands I use work on every single Juniper platform. It always bugs me when I’m trying to setup QOS across a network with different Cisco platforms (CatOS, ASA, different versions of IOS) and each platform has a completely different way of doing it. F5 all the way for content management. TippingPoint for IPS. 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
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