Re: [j-nsp] Experience with EX2500

2012-10-24 Thread Wojciech Owczarek
EX2500 is a re-branded Blade Networks (now IBM) switch. Juniper only licensed some old code for their use so BladeOS is now miles away from what it was when Juniper got it and it saw very little updates to Juniper's version. The 2500 is usually stable but had some critical bugs in the past, namely

Re: [j-nsp] Experience with EX2500

2012-10-24 Thread Per Granath
> how are the experiences with the EX2500 in regards of software / command- > line quality (since it is not running JunOS) and performance? It is EOL next month. The list price of EX4550 is 5% higher than EX2500. ___ juniper-nsp mailing list juniper-ns

Re: [j-nsp] Experience with EX2500

2012-10-24 Thread Skeeve Stevens
It is basically and IBM/BNT switch. Solid pedigree. Why not 4500/4550? The 4550 price is barely more than the 4550 32 port SFP+ where the EX2500 is 24 port SFP+ Stick with the ex4550 in my opinion - Junos is easier than an OEM bit of kit. This isn't anti-IBM, where partners with them, and they

[j-nsp] Experience with EX2500

2012-10-24 Thread Nicolaj Kamensek
Hello list, how are the experiences with the EX2500 in regards of software / command-line quality (since it is not running JunOS) and performance? The switch shall be used as a 10G aggregation device and as a ToR switch so the requirements for the feature set are very low. Basic vlans and so