Why not just go the whitebox route and pick your NOS of choice? Far cheaper, and far more flexible.
On Fri, Apr 20, 2018, 7:28 AM Colton Conor <colton.co...@gmail.com> wrote: > Of the two large Chinese Vendors, which has the better network operating > system? Huawei is much larger that ZTE is my understanding, but larger does > not always mean better. > > Both of these manufactures have switches and routers. I doubt we will use > their routing products anytime soon, but the switching products with MPLS > are what we are exploring. Price wise both of these vendors seem to have > 10G MPLS capable switches that are a 1/4 of the price of a Cisco or Juniper > wants to charge. > > On the Huawei side looks like the S6720 is a fit. > On the ZTE side, it looks like the ZXR10 5960 Series is a fit. > > Has anyone had experience with either of these two switches? How do they > compare? > > Also, for each independent brand, is their switching network operating > system the same as their routing network operating system that their > routers run? >
