Colton Conor <colton.co...@gmail.com> writes: > The other thread about the Alcatel-Lucent routers has been pleasantly > delightful. Our organization used to believe that Juniper, Cisco, and > Brocade were the only true vendors for carrier grade routing, but now we > are going to throw Alcatel-Lucent into the mix. > > ZTE and Huawei, the big chinese vendors, have also been mentioned to us. I > know there are large national security issues with using these vendors in > the US, but I know Level3 and other large American vendors use Huawei and > ZTE in their networks. > > How do their products perform? How are they compared to Cisco and Juniper > on the performance side of the house? Is their pricing really half or less > of that of Cisco and Juniper? Is it worth using these vendors or not worth > the hassle?
I don't know much about Huawei but be wary of ZTE's claims. They love their vendor lock-in. They have a bad habit of giving away hardware for next to nothing and then ratcheting up support costs. Opex needs to be a consideration when selecting an equipment vendor as well as capex.
