Cisco Optical Networking vs. Huawei CloudEngine Data Center Switches

Based on my experience, I think it's a goldmine for the experienced professional and a hectic job for newbies. I recommend newbies to have some experience and then jump to Cisco Optical Networking so that they can easily understand what they paid for and take the best out of it. It's best for network scalability so I highly recommend it to those who intend to scale their network in the near future however, if you know that your network will remain the same and you don't require it, there are cheaper options within Cisco.

Incentivized

The focus of the solution is datacenter, so it is a waste of resources to use them as SOHO or as access switches. All your robustness needs to be used correctly, so that there is no wasted investment. I also note that, as good practices, it is necessary to ensure redundancy and availability of assets and connections, so the investment is high, even more so if you need to mix fiber and twisted pair solutions.

Incentivized

• Easy tool on quick reporting.
• Ability to keep the user alert.
• Great tool for multiple data management.

Incentivized

• connection stability
• Simplified port-channel configuration
• Interoperability with various solutions

Incentivized

• Bugs on software IOS XR
• Migration from legacy gears
• Cost of NCS and new gen is too steep compared to competitors

Incentivized

• Documentation, like every huawei product, needs improvement
• The official training of this solution is extremely boring and theoretical. It is necessary to make something more practical and useful in everyday life.
• As it is a line for datacenters, I believe that the product needs a better development in its chassis. It seems very fragile to me.

Incentivized

Haven't used any other yet as my company was already using it when I joined, so don't really have any feedback here on this topic.

Incentivized

The Huawei CloudEngine Data Center Switches solution, as the name implies, is aimed at Datacenters and ToR applications. The development of such equipment was all designed to meet high processing loads and connections of servers, storages and other high-performance assets. The other solutions evaluated (and some we even have in our park) are for other purposes, such as access and edge.

Incentivized

• Easy and effective method to secure our data processing environment.
• Excellent transportation of many different data and very secure platform.
• Best data insights collection and easy reporting.

Incentivized

• The investment ensured a better response, at the network level, of the applications
• Support for 60 months guarantees better predictability when evaluating new investments of this type.
• Product redundancy ensures greater availability of the entire infrastructure and applications, thus reducing downtime.

Incentivized