I am going to have to reach out to Nokia and talk to them about their products then. In the past when I have talked to Nokia their products have a low upfront cost, but then they license you to death and were worse than Cisco from what I remember.
On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 8:27 AM Thomas Scott <mr.thomas.sc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Second vote for the Nokia 7200 line, their price points are hard to beat. > The 7250 was originally designed (per the Nokia reps I've talked to) to be > a data center switch, but I've seen more than one MSO deploy them in the > field to great effect. They also make fantastic satellite boxes for their > 7750 chassis. The 7210 is definitely older, but is a fantastic little MPLS > PE router. > > SRoS is also easy to pickup, considering it was written by ex-Juniper and > Cisco employees (TiMetra/TiMos if I recall correctly?) > > - Thomas Scott | mr.thomas.sc...@gmail.com > > > On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 7:10 AM Brandon Martin <lists.na...@monmotha.net> > wrote: > >> On 5/26/21 12:39 PM, Colton Conor wrote: >> > Ciena seems to have multiple options available with Segment Routing, >> > MPLS, and streaming telemetry support. I am probably most interested >> > in what Ciena has to offer. Has anyone deployed the 3000 or 5000 >> > product line of Ciena? How does it compare to Juniper? The Ciena 3924 >> > is sub $1000 for example, and has 4 10G ports on it. >> >> I've used the Ciena 3000 series switches as NIDs a fair bit and have no >> real complaints about them aside from TAC being a bit loathe to give out >> new versions of SAOS even when the version you've got deployed is going >> EOL. I've not used the MPLS functionality mostly because it's a pricey >> software license add-on and I can get by without, but the MEF and >> associated carrier-oriented Ethernet functionality seems to be pretty >> much top notch in terms of feature set, stability, and configurability. >> I mostly use the 3928 though partially because the 3924 is new enough it >> didn't make it into my standard build-out BOM. The 3928 does also have >> redundant PSU (fixed, but there are two) if that matters to you. At >> sub-$1000, the 3924 is a good deal in comparison if it'll do what you >> need. >> >> If you've never used them, you might find the config language a bit >> annoying in that it's more Yoda syntax than Cisco, but it's also more >> consistent than Cisco (what isn't?), so it's got that going for it. >> Documentation is alright. TAC is responsive to inquiries. >> >> -- >> Brandon Martin >> >>
