Is this a viable alternative to CSS11501?

Hi,
Assuming the performance was good enough, would the below be a viable alternative to the CSS11501? I'm guessing it's the CSS's hardware architecture that bumps up the price?
http://www.brainforce.com/eng/produkte/ina/ina_b100_cont_eng.htm
http://www.brainforce.com/pdf/b100_install.pdf
thanks,
alec

You have to look a carefully at these performance tests.
A few remarks
- The F5 documents compare the F5 product only to CSS 11503. The Cisco test was done with the CSM and the CSS 11506 which are higher end platform.
Why F5 did not compare itself to these products ?
- the F5 documents used version 5.20(0.1) for the CSS. This is the worst version we ever had and nobody uses it - would be interesting to see a real version like 7.20 or 7.30
- next the config of the CSS. It uses 'no persistent' which means we have to rebalance every GET request and they did not configure persistence reset remap which will optimize this rebalance.
[was it on purpose ? or they just didn't know it ?]
So, it looks like that with a very old/bad software, with an incorrect config and with very small packet sizes, the CSS is worst than F5.
With the same config and version but large packet size the difference between F5 and the CSS11503 is not that different.
BUT, if we use the 11506 with the right software and the right config, you get the number in the Cisco document and they're much better than F5.
Finally, evenif the performance would be the same, there is all the rest.
Is there such a forum for F5 products ?
Do you have certified engineer answering your questions related to F5 products ?
In case of a software bug [this is a reality, there is bugs with every software F5 and Cisco included], who's going to fix it first ?
I hope this helps.
Regards,
Gilles.

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