Re: Huawei and ZTE Routers

[Bacon Zombie <baconzombie () gmail com>]

You could try cross posting to UKNOG since BT use Huawei in their DSLAMs.

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On 7 May 2015 21:18, "ML" <ml () kenweb org> wrote:

> On 5/7/2015 2:25 PM, Daniel Corbe wrote:
>
> > Colton Conor <colton.conor () gmail com> writes:
> >
> >  The other thread about the Alcatel-Lucent routers has been pleasantly
> > > delightful. Our organization used to believe that Juniper, Cisco, and
> > > Brocade were the only true vendors for carrier grade routing, but now we
> > > are going to throw Alcatel-Lucent into the mix.
> > >
> > > ZTE and Huawei, the big chinese vendors, have also been mentioned to us.
> > > I
> > > know there are large national security issues with using these vendors in
> > > the US, but I know Level3 and other large American vendors use Huawei and
> > > ZTE in their networks.
> > >
> > > How do their products perform? How are they compared to Cisco and Juniper
> > > on the performance side of the house? Is their pricing really half or
> > > less
> > > of that of Cisco and Juniper? Is it worth using these vendors or not
> > > worth
> > > the hassle?
> > I don't know much about Huawei but be wary of ZTE's claims.  They love
> > their vendor lock-in.  They have a bad habit of giving away hardware for
> > next to nothing and then ratcheting up support costs.
> >
> > Opex needs to be a consideration when selecting an equipment vendor as
> > well as capex.
> 2nd hand information:
>
> Apparently the NMS for ZTE's GPON gear is an ugly contraption.
> When upgrades are needed:
> "we have to deploy a series of convuluted batch files"
> "and it has to be installed in the directory that whatever they installed
> it to in China"
> "paths are hardcoded in the app"
>
>
> Hopefully there is no crossover into ZTE's other products.