I think your original question was about carrier ethernet gear. I have also had some bad experiences with foundry/brocade equipment. Cisco's metro-e offering leaves something to be desired as well though. I actually went with ciena switches and mac-in-mac or PBB encapsulation. It's much more robust than vpls/L2vpn (at least until T-MPLS is standardized) and is simpler to implement and supported on lower cost gear. Most use vpls or l2vpn in their core to make use of existing routers. I would recommend ciena (if you can get over the "nortel-speak" command line) for an edge metro deployment. Brocade is better off in a DC environment delivering more generic ethernet services. Just my 2 cents.
Keegan 2011/8/11 Bradley Williamson <bwilliam...@eatel.com> > 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/