Is Cisco equpiment de facto for you?

Mon Jan 10 15:46:01 UTC 2011

Our core business is not as a service provider, as in selling services to
others, but we act as a service provider providing services for the various
customers in our internal network that we support.

Our core used to be an all Cisco Core. a few years back the decision was
made to replace this with Alcatel-Lucent IPD products. I can say we are
happy that we did replace the Cisco core, and we have had a very good
experience with the IPD product line. I am sure others can attest to this
also.  The features and functionality along with the reliability have been
very good, and in my opinion they have a strong product.

Our edge at this point is a mixture of Cisco access switches, and we also
still have some Cisco Distribution.

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Brandon Kim <brandon.kim at brandontek.com>wrote:

>
> Hello gents:
>
> I wanted to put this out there for all of you. Our network consists of a
> mixture of Cisco and Extreme equipment.
>
> Would you say that it's fair to say that if you are serious at all about
> being a service provider that your core equipment is Cisco based?
>
> Am I limiting myself by thinking that Cisco is the "de facto" vendor of
> choice? I'm not looking for so much "fanboy" responses, but more of a real
> world
> experience of what you guys use that actually work and does the job.....
>
> No technical questions here, just general feedback. I try to follow the
> Tolly Group who compares products, and they continually show that Cisco
> equipment
> is a poor performer in almost any equipment compared to others, I find that
> so hard to believe.....
>
> Thanks!
>
> Brandon
>
>