Not really. The ServerIron and BigIron product lines are targeted for
DotCom and Enterprise datacenters as well as the FastIron switches. That is
how foundry made its debut into the market and is gaining market share. I
imagine that is one of the reasons Cisco made the acquisition of Arrowpoint
to begin competing on more equal ground with Foundry products.
I agree with you on the fact that you get more bang for you buck with
the Foundry switches and I have coordinated three deployments myself of
their products, all of which were in the DotCom market space. I will
concede their products are working their way down the vertical into the
wiring closest and small to medium business markets BUT there are other
considersations to hardware choices and deployment beyond just how well they
perform. One that I find most important is the amount of available support
for Cisco products than Foundry products.
In any case, to get back on topic with the orginal message that started
this thread. The company in question is also looking at implementing VoIP
technology in the near future. (VoIP was discussed in an offline
correspondance) Based on that and the first look glimpse that we were given,
I personally believe Cisco would be a more appropriate vendor choice at this
time.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Walden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Perry Lucas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "LaRoy Slaughter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 8:30 AM
Subject: RE: Wireless Networking
>
> Thats a silly comment. They compete directly and have very similar product
> lines. As a side note, I happen to prefer Foundry due to my past
> experiences and it does deliver better bang for the buck and features at
> wire speed (ie, that don't melt the router if you turn them on). Juniper
> does also. Cisco may figure it out one day, or just continue to hemorage
> market share.
>
> andy
>
> On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Perry Lucas wrote:
>
> > I am a bit curious myself on that. Foundry is more oriented to webfarms
and
> > load balancing while extreme is oriented to Enterprise datacenters and
MANs.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> > LaRoy Slaughter
> > Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 1:27 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: Wireless Networking
> >
> >
> >
> > Please explain your choice here.
> >
> > Quncy Lau wrote:
> >
> > > If you don't need VLAN and VLAN routing. I suggest Catalyst 6509.
> > > If you need VLAN and VLAN routing, I suggest you not to use Cisco.
> > > Let's try Extreme or Foundry
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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