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On Wed, November 12, 2008 12:40, Raymond Macharia wrote: > Hello fellow nanogers, > I am a long time user of Cisco gear and currently evaluating an > alternative > for my network expansion. currently the one that looks like it will be > able > to do the job iare Alcatel-Lucent 7710/7750 service routers. > I am looking for real life experience of those who have used it and what I > may need to watch out for (if anything) I have seen in some of their > documentation features like Non-stop Services (NSS) and Non-stop Routing > (NSR). are these features real world deployable. > oh, just to add I want to use the routers as P routers in my IP/MPLS core I've deployed hundreds of these boxes as PE devices and they work _very well_ indeed. Not sure specifically about the non-stop part of it other than we have some of this deployed and it seems to work but is an area I think ALU could expand upon (and I believe they plan too). The ALU-Trimetra chaps based in San Jose and in Belgium are superb to work with also. -- Neil J. McRae -- Alive and Kicking. [email protected]
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