Hi, I've been running NetIron (MLXe + CER-RT) for quite some time, mostly happy with the products. Of course, there are always some unforseen / silly / nasty things that still turn one's mind upside down. What we noticed so far : - ISSU / hitless protocols upgrades : we have been pounding them to get it right, an RFE has been submitted for quite some time now but it's not there yet, - Support of route reflection for VPLS auto discovery : same as above, - Adding packet capture (PCAP) capabilities : newly submitted RFE, - Adding BGP flowspec support : same as above, Also, BFD is always a little sensitive when the routers' CPU spike even if it's supported in hardware. All in all, and from a price/performance perspective, I would still recommend them if they match your business case (especially CER-RT for small colo / IP transit / IXP PEs and/or BGP route reflection). HTH. 2015-01-14 21:17 GMT+01:00 Jeff Sorrels <jlsorrels@kanren.net>:
Graham,
We have several Brocades - including XMR, CER, and CES devices. Their convergence is excellent, even with several full v4 and v6 tables, and was much faster than other platforms (I'm looking at you MXs...). In terms of TCAM and convergence, best bang for the buck as they say.
One 'gotcha' we discovered: Brocade does not have, as per our last discussion with them, BGP FlowSpec on the road map. That was a problem for us, but YMMV.
Cheers, Jeff
On 1/14/2015 1:10 PM, Graham Johnston wrote:
We are looking at Brocade MLX routers to act as Internet edge routers. They will initially handle two to four full tables, plus peering on an IX. The price is certainly attractive. We are coming from Cisco 7600 series devices. Can anyone comment about their use of them? Are you happy with them? Any gotchas? Particularly we are interested in convergence time to full FIB population.
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