Web retailer slashes support costs by switching from Cisco to Juniper

By swapping out Cisco gear for Juniper equipment, Amazingmail.com trimmed down support cost from  $48,000 for Cisco to less than $6,000 per year for Juniper. By selling off the two-year-old Cisco hardware, Amazingmail.com says the project will pay for itself in eight months. The Scottsdale, Ariz., firm with about 90 employees spread over three sites made the swap during the first quarter of the year with no interruption to its online custom printing and mailing operations, says Larry Prine, lead systems administrator for the company.

According to this story by Network World's Tim Greene, there were tradeoffs, including that only certain models of the EX switches can be configured to act as part of a single logical switch, but the company says the money its saves on maintenance fees is worth it.

Another benefit includes the ability to switch WAN routers when one of the company's T-1 lines fails, something that was too complex for Amazingmail.com to get running on its Cisco routers, Prine says.

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