Y'know, I've always liked netgear switches myself, but I didn't know they made managed switches. So I'll look into that as well.
Thanks... > -----Original Message----- > From: Dave Pascoe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 4:04 PM > To: Edward Ned Harvey > Subject: Re: [BBLISA] Cisco versus Dell switches > > I know you're only looking at Cisco and Dell. Don't overlook Netgear - > I used to snub them but after testing their newer lines of switches > find > them to be really nice. And stable. The managed switches are actually > affordable and feature rich. > > I've used almost all the major manufacturers and have done work in some > heavy duty environments...so my recommendation isn't coming from left > field. :-) > > Dave > > > > Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > > Hey everyone. I know cisco is better; that's not the question. The > > question is - is cisco better in any of the ways I will care about. > Enough > > to outweigh the extra cost. I'm comparing 24port managed gigabit, > against > > 24port managed gigabit. > > > > If I buy the cisco, I am sure the switches will be stable, and remain > > operational, I can safely assume they continue doing their job at all > times > > with pure trust. Until the switch suffers some total failure, and I > RMA the > > device. I am prepared to face the risk that cisco RMA is 4 hour, > while Dell > > RMA is NBD. > > > > But in the past (2002) I had problems with Dell switches that would > crash. > > I was in a company that used experimental network hardware, but now > it's > > unclear if the cause was the switches or the experimental network > hardware. > > It's also unclear if there was a problem back in 2002, which is now > > resolved. > > > > Does anyone use Dell switches, can you say you're able to work > without > > problems in general? You're able to put some heavy NFS traffic > across the > > network, and the switches don't unexplainedly crash? > > > > _______________________________________________ > > bblisa mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
