We have about 40 procurves with one cat5 almost never had problems.
As long as you do not intend to deploy some thing which is cisco's
pripotary,
u will befine. Procureve supports standard VLANs, stacking etc...and
relativley cheap.
Procurve also come with free HPTop Tools which will let u manager them thru
web browser,.
inamu;l
""Denis A. Baldwin"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> We are looking at four new 24 port switches for our network. We have
Cisco
> and HP as our final contenders. Both the HP Procurve and the Cisco
> Catalyst carry similar specs, but the HP is about 20% of the cost of the
> Cisco. Can someone give me a REAL reason why the Cisco Catalyst would be
a
> better choice. Our network is all 10/100 for now and we won't need Gigabit
> for at least a couple of years. We need these switches to be in 24 port
> configurations as the company is going to split in two in a couple of
months
> and move half of the operations to another building, so we need to be able
> to split the network as needed. I know this is a Cisco group, which is
why
> I am asking it here, because I want a BIASED opinion of why Cisco would be
> better in this situation. Thank you all for your suggestions.
>
> Denis
>
>
> Denis A. Baldwin
> Network Administrator - CAE, Inc.
> A+, MCP, i-Net+, Network+
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