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Comcast as a company purchases from two vendors to avoid lock-in and to get the best prices. Juniper and Cisco, although last I heard Arista was also starting t
by X-Istence 11y ago
Comcast as a company purchases from two vendors to avoid lock-in and to get the best prices. Juniper and Cisco, although last I heard Arista was also starting to be used.
Dual-sourcing makes sense in a lot of cases.
- scurvy 11y agoYou can definitely dual source for separate parts of your network. Just don't dual source for the component in the same deployment. You do not want to run a Juniper and Cisco router in a pair, both talking with each other running IS-IS, VRRP, etc.