Ciena “Service Delivery Switches”

Hey all,

I’m purchasing two of Ciena’s 3916 service delivery switches to primarily use as a media converter to get me from a SMF handoff to RJ45. It will also act as an SNMP traffic monitoring device for an ELAN I’m getting delivered from my Fiber provider.

It seems to offer all of the regular features you’d expect to see on a basic Cisco switch. 3916 the price is way lower than any Cisco switch and I like it for the dual PSU for this application.

I’ve played with Ciena’s CLI and it it’s almost just the exact opposite as Cisco (instead of “show int” ciena is “int show”). Nothing too bad.

Anyone have experience with ciena gear? Horror stories? Happy stories?

Thanks!