We have had very good luck with Juniper switches in unfriendly environments (our tower sites). There are something on the order of 75 in use at tower sites and I don’t recall any failures.
Same with the Ciena gear - a good portion of our sites have both Juniper and Ciena equipment. Very reliable. We are actually starting to move away from Ciena as we implement MPLS and find we can do that in the Juniper gear and eliminate an extra piece of equipment. Mark > On Jul 2, 2020, at 11:11 AM, Trey Scarborough <t...@3dsc.co> wrote: > > This depends highly on what your looking for. If you are looking for > something to use in a datacenter/office that is environmentally friendly then > most of the juniper/cisco/brocade solutions will work another good one is > dell. > > If you want to retain something that wont die when the temperature gets high > or loose fans in a dusty environment. If you only need basic L2 then I would > recommend the ciena 3928 they are pretty cost efficient with basic L2 license > If you need more 10G ports there is the 5160. If you are wanting IP features > then I would go with Nokia 7210 MXP or for high capacity 10G and 100G 7250 > IXR. I know most people would think they are crazy expensive, but they are > less expensive than cisco with better features. They can go crazy on the > support contracts if you get the full featured management platform NSP, but > at the lowest level which would be most people its not to bad. > > > Trey > > > On 6/30/2020 9:28 AM, Adam Moffett wrote: >> So who's your preferred vendor for carrier switches? >> >> Suppose you want to break away from buggy Latvian switches, who would you >> look at today? >> >> Ciena? Adtran? Cisco? Juniper? >> >> >> > -- > > Trey Scarborough > VP Engineering > 3DS Communications LLC > p:9729741539 > > > > -- > AF mailing list > AF@af.afmug.com > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list AF@af.afmug.com http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com