Alcatel-Lucent 7750 Service Router (SR)

Wed May 6 23:22:15 UTC 2015

What's the price point of an SR-A4?  Comparable to the MX104 or ASR9001?

-- Stephen

On 2015-05-06 7:13 PM, Craig wrote:
> If you know Juniper and Cisco, the learning curve isn't so bad to pick up
> the ALU CLI, after working with it for a brief time, you catch on quickly.
> Their products are quite impressive, and a # of the carriers, are moving to
> them and some have already moved to them and are quite happy with their
> decision.
>
>
> On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 6:24 PM, Colton Conor <colton.conor at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I am worried as most tech's know Cisco and Juniper, so going to ALU would
>> be a learning curve based on replies I am getting off list.
>>
>> On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 5:22 PM, Dan Snyder <sliplever at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> They are definitely good for that. We use them in part of our network for
>>> something very similar.
>>>
>>> I am not sure why they aren't mentioned that much. I know that they have
>>> been pretty popular in the past couple years.
>>>
>>> We are planning on using 7750 SR-a4's in the future but right now we
>>> mainly have 7750SR7/12s.
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>> On May 6, 2015, at 6:00 PM, Colton Conor <colton.conor at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Taking full BGP routes from 4+ carriers on 10G connections. Why is ALU
>>> never mentioned, but Juniper MX and Cisco are all day long?
>>>
>>> The new 7750 SR-a4 looks like a Juniper MX80 or MX104 killer.
>>>
>>> On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 4:58 PM, Dan Snyder <sliplever at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> We have been using them for almost 8 years now and have been pretty
>>>> happy. What are you looking to use them for?
>>>>
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>
>>>>> On May 6, 2015, at 5:48 PM, Colton Conor <colton.conor at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I was wondering if anyone was using a  Alcatel-Lucent 7750 Service
>>>> Router
>>>>> (SR) in their network? How does this platform compare the the Cisco
>> ASR,
>>>>> Brocade MLXe, and Juniper MX line?
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>