Re: Benefits (and Detriments) of Standardizing Network Equipment in a Global Organization

[Chris Grundemann <cgrundemann () gmail com>]

On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 3:10 PM, Leo Bicknell <bicknell () ufp org> wrote:

> 2 Vendor
>
> Can be implemented multiple ways, for instance 1 vendor per site
> alternating sites, or gear deployed in pairs with one from each vendor
> up and down the stack.

An alternative multi-vendor approach is to use 1 vendor per stack layer,
but alternate layer to layer. That is; Vendor A edge router, Vendor B
firewall, Vendor A/C switches, Vendor D anti-SPAM software, etc. This
doesn't address the bug impact issue as well as it alleviates the vendor
"ownership" issue though...