Your own corporate network- what would you run?
Figured I'd get some input from others, as I got into a discussion with a co-worker, and it made me wonder what other IT professionals thought.
The $14m network that we manage is probably 85% foundry at the moment, and we're in the process of trying to migrate to 100% foundry, as the contract with cisco is done with..so we're slowly phasing out our cisco gear. I'm not saying cisco is going away anytime soon (obviously not), but that in our network, they prefer foundry.
So the question is, given your own network, what vendor would you prefer, Cisco, Foundry, Juniper, 3com?? Or a mix?? And why?
I myself, for a mostly data-only network, would select Foundry due to the slightly more friendly CLI...such as show commands from anywhere in the config..that and the foundry equipment seems a bit more expandable, such as the BigIron 15000, 8000's, etc. That being said, I haven't been exposed to the higher end cisco gear, so I might just be ignorant on that one. On a sidebar, I hate the fact that you don't see which ports are trunked by looking at the running-config of a foundry (as opposed to seeing "switchport mode trunk" on a cisco..I usually have to do a show vlan on a foundry, and find which ports are tagged).
For a mixture of data, and VOIP, I would select Cisco because from what I've seen, they're a more well-rounded company than Foundry in that sense.
I'm only speaking of the two, because that's all I've been exposed to. Just curious what the pro's think..
