Alcatel-Lucent 7750 Service Router (SR)

Thu May 7 13:16:48 UTC 2015

Forgot to send this yesterday… 

We use them in our networks along with ASR9Ks and MXs.  There are a lot of them deployed around the world doing very similar things as ASRs and MXs.  The config is more like Juniper than Cisco IMHO.  Being kind of the “3rd” vendor they have a tendency to implement features proposed by both Cisco and Juniper faster than Cisco and Juniper when proposed by the other vendor.  For instance Segment Routing is a Cisco thing, but ALU has already implemented it in their latest 13.0 software, Juniper is sort of dragging their feet on it because it’s a Cisco thing.   Same goes for NG-MVPN (BGP signaled multicast VPN).  Cisco dragged their feet on it because it was a Juniper thing, ALU had no issues implementing it much sooner.  Most of ALUs innovation is on the MPLS services side.  We use them for business VPN (L2 and L3) but the underlying protocols are all standard stuff and interoperate with everything else. 

Phil  

-----Original Message-----
From: Colton Conor
Date: Wednesday, May 6, 2015 at 17:48
To: NANOG
Subject: Alcatel-Lucent 7750 Service Router (SR)

>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?