Re: Is Cisco equpiment de facto for you?

[Randy Carpenter <rcarpen () network1 net>]

We have traditionally been a Cisco shop, but we are starting to move toward Juniper for much of our needs, and will be 
recommending Juniper as an alternative for customers' needs. From a technical point of view, I find the configurations 
to be simpler and easier to understand, and I like the fact that most everything runs the same OS, with the same 
interface. From a financial point of view, Juniper tends to be less expensive for more performance, and their support 
contracts are much cheaper.

All that said, and as other's have said, Cisco is always a safe choice, particularly since many people are familiar 
with them.

-Randy

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| Randy Carpenter
| Vice President, IT Services
| Red Hat Certified Engineer
| First Network Group, Inc.
| (419)739-9240, x1
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----- Original Message -----
> Hello gents:
>
> I wanted to put this out there for all of you. Our network consists of
> a mixture of Cisco and Extreme equipment.
>
> Would you say that it's fair to say that if you are serious at all
> about being a service provider that your core equipment is Cisco
> based?
>
> Am I limiting myself by thinking that Cisco is the "de facto" vendor
> of choice? I'm not looking for so much "fanboy" responses, but more of
> a real world
> experience of what you guys use that actually work and does the
> job.....
>
> No technical questions here, just general feedback. I try to follow
> the Tolly Group who compares products, and they continually show that
> Cisco equipment
> is a poor performer in almost any equipment compared to others, I find
> that so hard to believe.....
>
> Thanks!
>
> Brandon