Colton, This was 6+ years ago, SAOS 6.14, so I don't know it might be better now.
We changed to Cisco ASR920 and it was a night and day difference - we now have 90ish ASR920s in production but are migrating toward the NCS540X. Patrick Sat, May 29, 2021 at 10:13:13AM -0500, Colton Conor wrote: > Patrick, > How long ago was this, and what code were they running? > What do you recommend for aggregation then? > On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 9:17 PM Patrick Cole <z...@amused.net> wrote: > > We ran a medium sized mpls network using ciena 3900 and 5000 series > boxes on our microwave network. > Nothing but problems, the mpls code was just not mature enough and our > radio network had the boxes falling apart at the seams as storms rolled > through. At that time they didn't support FRR or proper CSPF so > everything had to be manually engineered active standby LSPs. Not sure > if things have changed now. These boxes have Nortel vintage and they > seemed best delloyed using PBB TE as it was mature. > As an NID though they are not a bad option but not in core or > aggregation IMHO. > > On 29 May 2021 08:49:51 Colton Conor <colton.co...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Yes, I was surprised as you that they have these routing features. I > was also surprised they had multiple boxes that compete with > aggregation devices like the ACX5048. The question is how good is > Ciena's MPLS, switching, and routing stack compared to the established > players of Juniper, Cisco, and Nokia? Ciena is no small company, so I > think they would have the resources to make it happen. > On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 12:32 PM <aar...@gvtc.com> wrote: > > Wow, ciena has the means to implement SR and MPLS services? I mean > they run the underlying LS IGP to signal those SIDâ**s ?? I > didnâ**t know that. I may look at them in the future then. I > thought Ciena just did some sort of static mpls-tp or somethingâ*¦ > >  > > We use Accedian as NIDâ**s with SkyLight director for PAA (SLA > stuff)â*¦and uplink those into our network at (yester-year, Cisco > ME3600â**s and ASR9000â**s), but now, ACX5048 and MX204 > >  > > -Aaron > >  -- Patrick Cole <patrick.c...@spirit.com.au> Chief Engineer Spirit Technology Solutions 19-25 Raglan St, South Melbourne VIC 3205 Desk: 0385541391 Mobile: 0410626630
