On 25/02/2010 10:36, Muhammad Atif Jauahar wrote: >> We are going to upgrade our Data Center we need 2 (redundant) core >> switches with top of rack switches (Edge). >> >> We get two Proposals >> > 1. 2 x EX8216 Switches (Core) and few EX4200 Switches (Edge) > 2. 2 x Nexus 7000 (Core), 2 Nexus 5000 (Distribution layer) > and few Nexus 2000 fabric extender (Edge). > > Which Proposal is best and why? comments needed.
Muhammad, Sarcasm aside, your original post didn't really contain any information about your engineering requirements. As a general guideline, your first question should be: "what am I trying to do". This will lead to a list of engineering requirements which will lead to a design and a requirements specification for your proposed networking equipment. The requirements specification will include details on technical features, cost, environmentals (size, power draw, etc), availability and so forth. The design will give you a good idea about how things ought to slot together. Once you know what you're looking for, you can then start looking around at what fits the bill, and what equipment features / misfeatures are likely to be relevant to you. You can then pass a carefully selected specification to potential suppliers / manufacturers so that they can confirm what would or wouldn't be appropriate for your installation. Juniper and Cisco have good quality engineers at their disposal, and it's entirely possible that they could make useful and insightful suggestions about how to improve your design or fine-tune your requirements. Both the Juniper EX8200 and Cisco N7K product lines are very fine pieces of engineering. But they are both very expensive, and if you plan to spend a couple of hundred thousand € / $ on this sort of kit, the least you ought to do is come up with compelling reasons to choose one over the other. Nick _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
