Re: BRAS/BNG Suggestion

[James Bensley <jwbensley () gmail com>]

On 2 December 2016 at 10:37, tim () pelican org <tim () pelican org> wrote:

> On Friday, 2 December, 2016 05:55, "Mark Tinka" <mark.tinka () seacom mu>
> said:
>
> > Redback used to be popular - I believe they got picked up by Ericsson.
>
> I'd steer clear at a small scale like 20k subscribers.  In my experience,
> Ericsson as an organisation just aren't set up to deal with a company that
> want to buy a couple of boxes, install and run them themselves, and call
> support when something breaks - it's all about multi-month PoCs and
> fully-managed rollouts at incumbent-telco scale.  Think 20M subs, not 20k.
I've heard Redback aren't so good anymore. We are very happy with Cisco
(ASR1000s) and Juniper (MX480s) for this function.

Cheers,
James.