Depends on what you mean by brocade. I bet you are looking at the foundry gear. The Foundry hardware is actually really nice. The real brocade switches based on fos I would throw in the trash can (at least based on the brocade 8k) from years ago.. I'd say that the foundry gear is on par with cisco and juniper. It configures much like ios. It really comes down to what you feel suits your company as you have to support it.
Hope this helps On Aug 11, 2011 10:14 AM, "Bradley Williamson" <bwilliam...@eatel.com> wrote: > Does anyone have any horror stories or gotcha's concerning Brocade? What about success stories? > > We are looking at Brocade, Cisco, and Juniper for a couple of upcoming projects and I am familiar with both Cisco and Juniper, but not so much with Brocade. We have a few of their small switches in our network, but that’s about the extent of my experience. > > We want to build an MPLS core capable of delivering triple-play services and as part of that, we will be building our a MetroE network to provide ethernet backhaul for mobile providers and also deliver L2VPN and L3VPN services to our business customers. > > I am a little skeptical of Brocade. I just do not understand how they can provide the performance they claim at half the price of the other guys. > > Any insight/advice would be appreciated. > > Brad > > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
