On your last note Cisco also offers a all-in-one with all the features you talked about and more. They are called UC500's.
_Chris On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Paul Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there.. > > I'm looking for some constructive feedback on **real world** experiences > please... > > We're primarily a Cisco shop today - our core and distribution are all > Cisco driven and will continue to be (won't change that so not worth > discussing today). > > My question is oriented towards two other markets primarily: > > Security Devices > Remote Office/Customer Site Devices > > Let me elaborate a bit more... > > Security - today, we've been deploying Cisco ASA boxes (was PIX before > that) with pretty good success. However, in comparison to Juniper the > Cisco boxes are *really* expensive - at least to us anyways. Juniper > has nice products so I'm looking at proposing a solution internally to > move towards the Juniper security appliances. Feedback from folks on > them vs Cisco ASA?? > > Remote Office/Customer Site Devices - today, we do a lot of "managed > routers" to customer sites. Again, cost driven, I'm being pushed > towards looking at Adtran devices for customer sites that we maintain. > I have nothing against Adtran but haven't viewed them to date as being > in the same "arena" as Cisco/Juniper etc.. these routers are mainly > providing basic firewalling/NAT and some very small VPN activity at > times. > > To take this one step further, some of our voice folks are really > enjoying the Adtran boxes as it offers an "all in one solution" which is > a router, firewall, "voice" box (many options - PRI handoff, T1, > FXS/FXO) and in some of their boxes 24 POE switch ports as well. This > is kinda cool I'll admit but the approach in the past has been to drop > in a Cisco router, Adtran for voice applications, and then Cisco POE > switches if required. This is very costly compared to Adtran's all in > one approach.... so am I being stubborn on this or is the Adtran > products in this case in the same league?? I had some terrible track > record with Adtran a number of years ago so my back gets up when their > name is mentioned...;) > > Any feedback would be very appreciated - we're going to have meetings > internally in the next while to decide which product lines fit with > which service offerings the best.... > > Thanks, > > Paul > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > "The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to > which it is addressed and contains confidential and/or privileged material. > If you received this in error, please contact the sender immediately and > then destroy this transmission, including all attachments, without copying, > distributing or disclosing same. Thank you." > >
