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I use
Procurves all the time, we about 10 of them, two 4000m blade models and the rest
are 2424m, they are absolutely excellent, I have not had a day of trouble in
over 3 years, except for a fan for the 4000 that was replaced the next day. Nice
thing about the Procurve 4000 is that it has a Lifetime warranty, i.e. forever,
no questions asked.
Rob.
We have several. Mainly, I'm looking to
replace a 6509. It has about 250 10/100 ports in it, and it's simply
overkill for our shop of about 100 devices. Looking at annual
maintenance, it's expensive. Looking at a gig blade, I decided to think
about something else. Especially since I'm anything but an IOS
guru. I can fake my way through it, and generally find what I need, but
that's about it. I'm thinking that a browser interface is more suited to
our needs (read abilities).
When I add up that maintenance is free, Software
upgrades are free, and the cost to purchase is about 1/4 that of Cisco, and
maintenance becomes something that we can easily do in-house, I just don't see
any reason to stay with Cisco gear. I'm wondering if I'm missing
something, or if I'm correct here. From the sound of it, everyone with
Procurve is happy with it.
I'm specifically thinking of a 4108 or possibly a
5372.
Kev.
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Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2003 10:49
AM
Subject: Re: (clug-talk) Core
Switches.
I use procurves all the time at work. They're pretty good,
seem to be pretty solid in the enhanced models. We run one here for our LAN,
it's a modular chassis, you can add 12 port blades to it when you run out of
switchports. It's SNMP manageable, telnet manageable (CLI and menu-driven)
has a web interface (which we don't use). The menu is pretty simple, much
like the Cat 1900 series, and the CLI is quite cisco-like; these switches
actually run CDP, which is odd, seeing as how that's a Cisco proprietary
protocol. I'm assuming they have some licensing deal with Cisco, or perhaps
they use a Cisco backplane of some sort.
What kind of Cisco switch do
you have now? Why is it so expensive to maintain and
upgrade?
tim
--Original Message Text---
From: Kevin
Anderson
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 10:09:49 -0600
Does anyone have any experience with
HP core switches. We have a Cisco right now, but it's expensive to maintain,
and even more expensive to upgrade. I'm thinking it might make sense to
switch it out with a Procurve.
I'd be interested in any firsthand
experiences, positive or negative.
Thanks.
Kev.
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