You've got the Zuma PDF stored. It's not that detailed, but check out
the comparison to Foundry's top of the line BigIron 8000. There is not enough Zuma information to do a good comparison, but here are some tidbits:
BigIron claims 96 Mpps performance and Zuma claims 160Mpps.
BigIron has 4 and 8 slot configurations to Zuma's 4 and 16 slots.
BigIron has up to 64 GE ports and Zuma probably matches/exceeds that (doesn't state, but more slots and higher fabric speed)
Zuma is VoIP ready - no mention of voice capability for BigIron
Zuma is 10GbE (10 Gigabit Ethernet) ready and BigIron is not
BigIron operates at OSI layers 2-4, Zuma claims layers 2-7.
Both support VLANs.
Both support DHCP.
Zuma comes with a firewall, BigIron provides layer 2-4 filtering so the customer can build their own.
Zuma supports 4 and 8 channel WDM. BigIron has no WDM connectivity.
Zuma supports VPN/IPSEC tunneling. BigIron does not mention VPN support (in a very detailed document).
Zuma highlights their scaleability and redundancy (up to 31 CPUs, 4 switching matrixes, power). BitIron does not mention scaleability or multiple CPUs.
Zuma talks about Billing capabilities - SLA and usage billing, Radius Accounting and per-flow bandwidth management. BigIron does not mention any of those topics.
Now, to be sure, this is not a fair comparison, as I was mainly looking for Zuma advantages, but I did not see any definite items in BigIron's favor, except mention of POS (Packet over Sonet) support and the much more general Zuma document does not mention it.
The Zuma box looks superior or highly competitive relative to BigIron, based on the little that we can see. I'm sure the price will be competitive too.
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