Re: Recommendations for Metro-Ethernet Equipment

2010-10-21 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Thu, 21 Oct 2010, Ramanpreet Singh wrote: To be fair, Our hardware was EOL, I am not sure if they have improved but then we migrated all our equiment in 2008-2009. Extreme Networks had a lot of memory chip problems for equipment manufacturered ~2000-2002. They improved a lot after that.

Re: Recommendations for Metro-Ethernet Equipment

2010-10-21 Thread Aaron Glenn
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Chris Grundemann wrote: > > Corrigent if anyone on the list has experience with their gear in the field I'd love to hear your experiences off-list. I'll even buy you a beer if you're in the nyc area. thanks!

Re: Recommendations for Metro-Ethernet Equipment

2010-10-21 Thread Bill Blackford
the future I hope we can migrate over to cisco switches because I'm > bias. =) > > > >> From: mer...@metalink.net >> To: nanog@nanog.org >> Subject: RE: Recommendations for Metro-Ethernet Equipment >> Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 15:05:37 -0400 >> >> T

RE: Recommendations for Metro-Ethernet Equipment

2010-10-21 Thread Brandon Kim
I'm bias. =) > From: mer...@metalink.net > To: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: RE: Recommendations for Metro-Ethernet Equipment > Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 15:05:37 -0400 > > Thanks to everyone who responded. Just got done talking with Extreme which > no one really mentione

Re: Recommendations for Metro-Ethernet Equipment

2010-10-21 Thread Ramanpreet Singh
> Sent: 2010-10-20 19:50 > To: Ramanpreet Singh > Cc: Jason Lixfeld; nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: Recommendations for Metro-Ethernet Equipment > > I think that's what Jason just said. :-) > > > > > On 2010-10-20, at 5:24 PM, Ramanpreet Singh wrote: > >>

RE: Recommendations for Metro-Ethernet Equipment

2010-10-21 Thread Eric Merkel
metalink.net -Original Message- From: Dan Armstrong [mailto:d...@beanfield.com] Sent: 2010-10-20 19:50 To: Ramanpreet Singh Cc: Jason Lixfeld; nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Recommendations for Metro-Ethernet Equipment I think that's what Jason just said. :-) On 2010-10-20, at 5:

Re: Recommendations for Metro-Ethernet Equipment

2010-10-20 Thread Dan Armstrong
I think that's what Jason just said. :-) On 2010-10-20, at 5:24 PM, Ramanpreet Singh wrote: > 7600's/ASR 1k > > Have you looked in to Ciso ME 3600X/ME 3800X series? > > Without a bias these are the top notch products in the market for Metro E. > > -Raman > > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:57 P

Re: Recommendations for Metro-Ethernet Equipment

2010-10-20 Thread Ramanpreet Singh
7600's/ASR 1k Have you looked in to Ciso ME 3600X/ME 3800X series? Without a bias these are the top notch products in the market for Metro E. -Raman On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Jason Lixfeld wrote: > On 2010-10-20, at 11:24 AM, Eric Merkel wrote: > >> Any suggestions, success or horror s

Re: Recommendations for Metro-Ethernet Equipment

2010-10-20 Thread Jason Lixfeld
On 2010-10-20, at 11:24 AM, Eric Merkel wrote: > Any suggestions, success or horror stories are appreciated. ;) I've been going through pretty much the same exercise looking for a decent PE for almost two years. Our requirements were for a PE device that had between 12-24 ports (in a perfect w

Re: Recommendations for Metro-Ethernet Equipment

2010-10-20 Thread Chris Grundemann
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 09:29, Curtis Maurand wrote: >  I'd add Alcatel to that list. yep, and also (depending on specific needs/topologies): Ciena Cyan Fujitsu Corrigent Adva Rad Data Juniper (in no particular order) Good luck, ~Chris > > On 10/20/2010 11:24 AM, Eric Merkel wrote: >> >> I've

Re: Recommendations for Metro-Ethernet Equipment

2010-10-20 Thread Francois Menard
We just bought a fair amount of MRV Optiswitches for that same purpose. F. On 2010-10-20, at 11:29 AM, Curtis Maurand wrote: > I'd add Alcatel to that list. > > On 10/20/2010 11:24 AM, Eric Merkel wrote: >> I've been tasked with making a recommendation for the core and access >> equipment for a

Re: Recommendations for Metro-Ethernet Equipment

2010-10-20 Thread Curtis Maurand
I'd add Alcatel to that list. On 10/20/2010 11:24 AM, Eric Merkel wrote: I've been tasked with making a recommendation for the core and access equipment for a small metro-ethernet network. We're probably talking at max 200-300 subs split between two termination points. Most customers will proba

Recommendations for Metro-Ethernet Equipment

2010-10-20 Thread Eric Merkel
I've been tasked with making a recommendation for the core and access equipment for a small metro-ethernet network. We're probably talking at max 200-300 subs split between two termination points. Most customers will probably be at speeds of 100M or less. We'd like the backbone to be 10G and be MPL