[Cialug] OT: Network Switches

[Dave J. Hala Jr.]

I've used Bay managed switches and found them to be a quality product.


On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 11:00, David Champion wrote:
> Nathan C. Smith wrote:
> 
> > Anybody have a strong opinions on enterprise switches?
> > 
> > I used to swear by 3Com, they have adopted a new support policy so now I
> > swear at them: You have to purchase a support contract now where firmware
> > updates used to be free.  I suppose most vendors have come to this
> > conclusion.  Blame the second-hand market I guess.
> > 
> > Cisco - like BMW? - a quality product - but you pay too much of a premium
> > for the name.
> > 
> > I'd rather not use any of the above any more.  Anybody care to share their
> > thoughts on why I'm an idiot or the equipment they prefer?  Particularly,
> > anybody like Bay networks or Extreme, HP, or . . .?  I'm interested in
> > managed switches, QOS, and layer 3 switching at points.
> 
> I'm not using any of the managed features currently, but have been very 
> happy with the BayStack (Bay Networks / Nortel) switches - they've been 
> rock solid. They probably don't have all of the features of a nice Cisco 
> switch, but they also cost 3 times less.
> 
> In the past I've used 3com & HP switches, haven't been impressed with 
> either of them. The 3com didn't auto-negotiate speeds with other devices 
> (sometimes even 3com NIC's) and the HP used to drop ports & require a 
> power cycle to fix about once a week.
> 
> -dc
> 
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