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It’s only cheaper if you’re operating at large scale. For the vast majority of organizations, Cisco/Juniper/Palo Alto/Arista are the only cost effective option
by ra1n85 8y ago
It’s only cheaper if you’re operating at large scale. For the vast majority of organizations, Cisco/Juniper/Palo Alto/Arista are the only cost effective options.
- exelius 8y agoRight, but at the low end, there are better options than Cisco (all 3 you mentioned really). At the high end (carrier grade), there weren’t necessarily. They’re not going it alone; ONOS [1] is basically the open source carrier-grade networking platform. Think of it as Kubernetes for SDN packet routing that they’re building custom network integration solutions (think routers, bulk fiber termination, RF, satellite, laser, WiFi mesh) on top of. Then get Chinese manufacturers to build the hardware (which doesn’t have anything proprietary in it — all white box with Intel or ARM CPUs). Incredibly powerful and flexible, and they have all the heavy hitters involved (Google, Intel, Samsung, AT&T, Comcast, etc.) It will be a game-changer for telecom in another 5 or 6 years once the management tools mature and commercial solutions based on it are developed. [1] https://www.onosproject.org/ https://www.onosproject.org/
- user5994461 8y agoCisco never sold low end hardware. Tell us what are the great alternatives in middle end.