RE: Is Cisco equpiment de facto for you?

["Paul Stewart" <paul () paulstewart org>]

Cisco shop here that is avidly converting to Juniper.....

Paul


-----Original Message-----
From: Brandon Kim [mailto:brandon.kim () brandontek com] 
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2011 10:32 AM
To: nanog group
Subject: Is Cisco equpiment de facto for you?


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

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