Re: BRAS/BNG Suggestion

[Dragan Jovicic <draganj84 () gmail com>]

Our current deployment uses several Alcatel SR 7750 boxes - we pair these
with MX960 and MX2020 for CGNAT for several hundred thousand customers.
Alcatel and Juniper have been a rock solid combination so far.

Regards

Dragan

On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 11:53 AM, James Bensley <jwbensley () gmail com> wrote:

> 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.