Hi All, If anyone out there has any pro/con experience with the Force10 E1200i or S50 in a large environment I'd really appreciate your thoughts. I'm comparing them against the Juniper EX8200 and EX4200 respectively and curious about hardware/software stability on both brands. Off-list responses are invited to avoid publicly promoting/demoting a specific brand or device ;) Many thanks in advance, Adam LaFountain
On Thu, 3 Jun 2010, Adam LaFountain wrote:
If anyone out there has any pro/con experience with the Force10 E1200i or S50 in a large environment I'd really appreciate your thoughts.
Those are totally different animals, they don't even run the same code :) E1200 is a large chassis switch, S50N/V are 1U stackables. One can actually do (tables/mpls) IP routing, one can't; Basically one is decent for core, one for server agg.
I'm comparing them against the Juniper EX8200 and EX4200 respectively and curious about hardware/software stability on both brands.
It really depends on what you're looking for... The EX series is a great L2/L3 switch, but likely you'd end up wanting MX in core if you're going the Juniper direction. IMHO Juniper is faster and more responsive in releasing updates if that matters. I've seen Juniper eat F10's lunch more than once recently, so you should probably figure out what you want first before you get in too deep :) -Tom
This might be interesting to you: http://www.force10networks.com/new_ethernet_economics/player/?rndr=2 On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Tom <bifrost@minions.com> wrote:
On Thu, 3 Jun 2010, Adam LaFountain wrote:
If anyone out there has any pro/con experience with the Force10 E1200i or S50 in a large environment I'd really appreciate your thoughts.
Those are totally different animals, they don't even run the same code :) E1200 is a large chassis switch, S50N/V are 1U stackables. One can actually do (tables/mpls) IP routing, one can't; Basically one is decent for core, one for server agg.
I'm comparing them against the Juniper EX8200 and EX4200 respectively and
curious about hardware/software stability on both brands.
It really depends on what you're looking for... The EX series is a great L2/L3 switch, but likely you'd end up wanting MX in core if you're going the Juniper direction. IMHO Juniper is faster and more responsive in releasing updates if that matters.
I've seen Juniper eat F10's lunch more than once recently, so you should probably figure out what you want first before you get in too deep :)
-Tom
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