I'll join the chorus of folks lauding HP switches. More or less all of Cornell's switching is done on ProCurve gear.
If you want to be paranoid about your overall network availability matters to you, and you can afford it, get 2 switches. Link 'em, and spread all your VLANs across both switches. Then lay out your physical connections such that losing a single switch is of minimal impact. Do dual connections for the important stuff and they won't miss a beat. On the other hand, that may be overkill. In which case a single box will probably do you nicely. -- Christopher Manly [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> On Dec 1, 2010, at 3:42 PM, Brian Ruppert wrote: On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Justin Ellison <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Whenever I've had a need for a managed switch and it didn't *have* to be a Cisco, I've had more than 10 years worth of experience with HP Procurves, and have yet to have any of them fail. Lifetime free software updates is a huge plus. Their CLI is pretty much a blatant copy of CatOS, so it's not hard to "switch gears" when dealing with them. Justin On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Dan Foster <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hot Diggety! Jonathan B Bayer was rumored to have written: 3. I'm not familiar with the current Cisco switches; my last experience with Cisco was about 5 years ago. Which switch(s) would you use? Something from a vendor other than Cisco, quite frankly, especially given your org size and financial requirements. I agree with the HP ProCurve suggestion. I needed to replace old 3Com network gear and ProCurve's pricing worked in our budget. The equipment had a lifetime warranty, but I never had to use it in the 3+ years I worked there. You can buy an HP carepack if you need rapid service. Software updates are easily downloadable from hp.com<http://hp.com> without having to constantly keep a service contract registered on your account. The only complaint that I can think of was that some of the 48-port 1U switches had noisy fans, but they may have resolved that (and it shouldn't be a problem if they live in a closet anyway). -- Brian _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
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