Do you have a preferred vendor for your network gear?
I’ll go first:
- Firewalls: Fortinet, ASA, Palo Alto
- Route/Switch: Cisco, HPE/Aruba
- Wireless: Aruba, Cisco, Meraki
- Auth: NPS, ISE, ClearPass
- Monitoring: SolarWinds, Auvik, PRTG
- Automation: Ansible
- SDWAN: PA Prisma SDWAN, Fortinet, Velocloud
Fortinet
ONE DAY after we bought one it turns out [https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fortinet-fixes-critical-rce-flaw-in-fortigate-ssl-vpn-devices-patch-now/amp/](they were being pwned and Fortinet is being a weasel in their security communications)
I blame myself. I knew old ones were being pwned but this just feels bad. Life goes on but ugh
Personally I love Fortis for firewalls and SDWAN, Huawei for routing, switching and WLAN. Clearpas for Auth. I do not have a lot of experience in different Monitoring softwares but am quite used to solarwinds.
Anything using SNMP, SSH, and NetFlow gets me what I need. Oh, and easy packet captures.
Juniper for R/S, Palo for firewalls. At home I use pfsense and UniFi APs and in that environment they’re great.
Ha! At home I run a Ubiquiti stack with my lab hung off it (switches, ASA, FortiGate).
Arista for DC switching and Juniper for everything else.
Tell me you’re a provider without telling me you’re a provider.
Hopefully at some point. Enterprise now and a couple of smaller cloud companies before this.
Also all Arista for DC switching. Fintech space
Juniper Routers and Switches are solid, firewalls are ok but pretty easily outclassed by a Forti or Palo these days
Juniper Mist for Wi-Fi is awesome, much better than other wireless solutions I’ve used personally
I got a lot of exposure to MikroTik’s route/switch devices when I worked at a WISP and really came to love them.
Wireless: Aruba, Cisco, Meraki
I know what you meant when you said “Wireless”, but I’m going to go with Siklu for their Kilo EtherHaul 70/80GHz radios that can no shit do 10Gbps links up to like 10 miles in ideal conditions.
Wait, Cisco == Meraki ;)
I work for Aruba (outing myself on my first post on Lemmy, smooth move dude) but I see Mist marketing themselves everywhere in the space, interested on people’s take on them.
Id definitely include docker under automation. for monitoring we have started using managedEngine
ManageEngine is good. IMO, if you can do ICMP, SNMP, NetFlow, and SSH (for config mgmt), you’re good. Bonus points for API integration!
