We are exploring the use of Ciena in our last-mile access network for aggregation and demarcation. We're exploring their layer 3 capable 5000 and 3000 family devices. Our core is all juniper and up until now we have been rolling Juniper for metro aggregation but we are interested in deploying more capable boxes that support a richer OAM feature set. The ACX line while great doesn't seem to have the depth of the Ciena family of devices. I would love to hear people's thoughts and experiences with Ciena hardware, software (SAOS, MCP,), support, etc. Their stuff isn't cheap but it's also not the most expensive on the market (I'm looking at you Cisco). Thanks in advance! We would love to roll with a white box solution from edge-core or ufiSpace but the NMS and FCAPS solutions are not there yet and we don't have the development resources to build them ourselves and continue to maintain our existing functions. We are primarily exploring solutions from Adva and Ciena but would love to hear thoughts/ideas on anyone else we should be exploring. Thanks in advance.
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