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Wow, I forgot that even existed. Here I was thinking of every switch, firewall, and routing product they've done except this line. I guess it doesn't help that
by feld 9y ago
Wow, I forgot that even existed. Here I was thinking of every switch, firewall, and routing product they've done except this line. I guess it doesn't help that I've never had a reason to touch one as every carrier grade router I've used has been Juniper. I wonder why they went with a whole new platform based on QNX when you don't benefit from a realtime OS if all the packets are moved in hardware? Must be something about the pain of upgrades and reloads on other Cisco product lines and somehow QNX can minimize these outage windows.
I've still yet to meet someone who actually prefers Cisco over Juniper MX. I wonder who is buying these?
- Grazester 9y ago"I've still yet to meet someone who actually prefers Cisco over Juniper MX. I wonder who is buying these?" You have met my ex-boss.He had no reason to necessarily prefer Cisco other than that's all he was accustomed to.
- feld 9y agoBut how do you get "accustomed" to it when every OS Cisco has looks the same but is different enough to drive a man insane?
- nickpsecurity 9y agoIt's a highly-reliable, ultra-responsive, self-healing OS w/ plenty of middleware and supported architectures. Also easy to develop on. It's already 90% to their goal for their OS and software. Why not use what already works? If it makes them enough money, they could try to develop something similar in-house. EDIT to add jacquesm's comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14231160 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14231160 Mine on Lobsters summarizing a lot with links: https://lobste.rs/s/ensbd6/building_blackberry_qnx_7_desktop#c_bpjfb3 https://lobste.rs/s/ensbd6/building_blackberry_qnx_7_desktop...