Re: China Showdown Huawei vs ZTE

[Colton Conor <colton.conor () gmail com>]

Josh,

I like the whitebox route, but I can't find anything that will come close
price wise.

Example, Huawei S6720 with 24 10G ports, 2 40G ports, and full MPLS
operating system from Huawei is $3500 out the door with a lifetime
warranty. I can't even find a whitebox hardware, not even accounting for
the OS, that is close to that price. Most 48 Port 10G with 6 40G uplinks
(so double this huawei unit) are in the $5k range, and then you have to buy
an operating system costing a couple more grand. Choices are limited on
whitebox operating systems that support MPLS.

There might be some FibeStore models that come close to this price, but
FS.com is a Chinese company too, so that's no better than ZTE or Huawei.



On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 7:34 AM, Josh Reynolds <josh () kyneticwifi com> wrote:

> Why not just go the whitebox route and pick your NOS of choice?
>
> Far cheaper, and far more flexible.
>
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2018, 7:28 AM Colton Conor <colton.conor () gmail com> wrote:
>
> > Of the two large Chinese Vendors, which has the better network operating
> > system? Huawei is much larger that ZTE is my understanding, but larger
> > does
> > not always mean better.
> >
> > Both of these manufactures have switches and routers. I doubt we will use
> > their routing products anytime soon, but the switching products with MPLS
> > are what we are exploring. Price wise both of these vendors seem to have
> > 10G MPLS capable switches that are a 1/4 of the price of a Cisco or
> > Juniper
> > wants to charge.
> >
> > On the Huawei side looks like the S6720 is a fit.
> > On the ZTE side, it looks like the ZXR10 5960 Series is a fit.
> >
> > Has anyone had experience with either of these two switches? How do they
> > compare?
> >
> > Also, for each independent brand, is their switching network operating
> > system the same as their routing network operating system that their
> > routers run?