I worked for a Hosting company in the past that used DELL switches mostly for the cabinet or cages. They're not as reliable. 3Com has made a comeback, since they purchased Huwaei. A boss of mine has told me he did a lot of jobs pulling old 3Comms as they were Failure prone.
One that shows promise for less money than CISCO, and without the annoying CISCO SmartNet annual re-licensing is HP Procurve. Price is slightly less than CISCO and HP is known for making good hardware, no matter the application. Tony Costa [EMAIL PROTECTED] my alter ego [EMAIL PROTECTED] my paycheck 1-401-556-7686 mobile -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2007 12:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: bblisa Digest, Vol 48, Issue 18 Send bblisa mailing list submissions to [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of bblisa digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Cisco versus Dell switches (stephen g. wadlow) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:34:58 -0500 From: "stephen g. wadlow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [BBLISA] Cisco versus Dell switches To: Edward Ned Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [email protected] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed I've had quite the opposite experience. I don't think I've worked with a netgear switch (old or new) that didn't freak out and need to be rebooted on a regular basis. I've become something of a fan of Foundry FastIrons over the last few years. They're solid, manageable, and typically much cheaper than a "comparable" cisco, moreso on the grey market. -steve On Nov 19, 2007, at 10:24 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > 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 > ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa End of bblisa Digest, Vol 48, Issue 18 ************************************** _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
