Re: Any experience with FS hardware out there?

[Hugo Slabbert]

Largely from web searches, the price seemed to shake out around there. This wasn't from wholesale / direct Edge-Core pricing.

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On Mon 2018-Jan-08 20:30:01 -0600, Colton Conor <colton.co...@gmail.com> wrote:

Where do you get wholesale pricing from Edgecore? Simple google searches
only bring up
https://bm-switch.com/index.php/edge-core-as7712-32x-100g-bm-switch-preloaded-with-onie.html


On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 1:19 PM, Hugo Slabbert <h...@slabnet.com> wrote:

On Fri 2018-Jan-05 12:50:42 -0600, Bryan Holloway <br...@shout.net> wrote:

Fiberstore is rolling out some CRAZY cheap 100Gbps switches, and I'm

curious if anyone in the community has any thoughts or real-life world
experience with them.

E.g.: https://www.fs.com/products/69340.html

For the price point, it's almost in the "too good to be true" category.

The price is on par with the hardware cost of other whitebox Tomahawks,
e.g. Edge-Core 32x100G models like the AS7712 or AS7716 that also runs the
BCM56960, so the primary distinction seems to be that you get a NOS
included in that price.  I have zero experience with Broadcom's ICOS as
opposed to the other options on the market, so it seems to be a question of
whether you're happy with that or would be e.g. paying Cumulus or $vendor a
few K USD for a license for their NOS on it.


Naturally it claims to support an impressive range of features including

BGP, IS-IS, OSPF, MPLS, VRFs, blah blah blah.

There was an earlier discussion about packet buffer issues, but, assuming
for a second that it's not an issue, can anyone say they've used these
and/or the L2/L3 features that they purportedly support?

Thanks!
                        - bryan

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