History of the Cisco 7200 The Cisco 7200 Series routers have been at the Enterprise Edge for almost two decades. Even though the first 7200 Series router came out in 1996. Cisco has kept the 7200 Series routers up to date by releasing a new chassis (The 7200VXR in 2002) and continuing to release new Network Processing Engines (NPEs). The current NPE-G2 processor (released … [Read more...]
Huawei vs Cisco vs Juniper - Part 1: The Core Router Analysis has worked on a lot of deals where Huawei is one of the bidding vendors and the client asks us for a comparison: Huawei vs Cisco vs Juniper. Router Analysis has done enough testing with all three vendors to give a comprehensive answer. Here is an overview of the Huawei products and the comparable Cisco and Juniper … [Read more...]
Cisco 3750 vs 3560 What is the difference between the Cisco 3750 and 3560? What about the 3750E vs 3750X? These question comes from clients time and time again. Here are the answers you need. The main difference is that the 3750 supports Cisco StackWise, i.e. creating one large virtual switch out of multiple chassis. The 3560 has a "cluster" feature which while it soun … [Read more...]
The top of the rack has long be the location of important networking devices in the datacenter. Generally held for a small switch or console server, it has recently become it's own space in the market, with leaders like Cisco, Juniper and Huawei vying for it. Huawei: Recently Huawei released the CloudEngine 6800 Series giving 48 10GE and 4 40GE ports in 1U. Thats a very … [Read more...]