RE: China Showdown Huawei vs ZTE

["Colin Stanners \(lists\)" <Colin-lists () highspeedcrow ca>]

Colton, can you post some examples of the Whitebox/OS examples that you were looking at in that performance tier?

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From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces () nanog org] On Behalf Of Colton Conor
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2018 7:46 AM
To: Josh Reynolds <josh () kyneticwifi com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog () nanog org>
Subject: Re: China Showdown Huawei vs ZTE

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?