I was always a fan of HP and 3com for networking over Cisco. It was easy to keep gear assigned to specific tasks. This is our core switch. This is the core r

I was always a fan of HP and 3com for networking over Cisco. It was easy to keep gear assigned to specific tasks. This is our core switch. This is the core router. Pricing kept this amenable to management. Juniper was never "in the budget" as a viable alternative. I'm currently at a Cisco shop that purchased their first Juniper switch 12 months ago for Equinix cross-connects to the cloud. Should be interesting to see how this plays out.