Hi Mike/Drew, We also have lots of experience with FS.com switches; however.. One thing we noticed really quick is that its better to order 1 and to find the actual supplier and order with them directly. FS.com is a reseller; and they will switch (no pun intended) supplier almost yearly. Real technical support is nonexistent (even though they claim it is great) and I have yet to have a single bug fixed; packet dumps and steps to reproduce included. I have removed all of our *N*5850-48S6Q due to bugs in software lockups.
Their current *S*5850-48S6Q is developed by Centec Neworks ( http://www.centecnetworks.com/en/SolutionList.asp?ID=91 ) and is the E580-48X6Q (compare the changelog and manual; you will see its a "replace all" job). These switches do actually support LDP/MPLS/VPLS if you buy the license and run them in their 'ipran' profile. Feel free to contact me off list if you have any questions. Kind regards, Nick ten Cate >> Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2019 09:25:24 -0700 >> From: Mike <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: Couple of questions about "baremetal/ONIE" networking >> equipment sellers >> Message-ID: <[email protected]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" >> >> On 10/25/19 9:13 AM, Drew Weaver wrote: >> > >> > Hello, >> > >> > >> > >> > 1. I was reading about Cumulus and came across a note about >> > bm-switch.com, does anyone have any experience purchasing switches >> > from bm-switch.com? What was your experience like? >> > 2. Same question about hardware from FS.com any problems there? >> > >> > Thanks! >> > >> > -Drew >> > >> >> I have some experience with FS.com - I have the S5850-48S6Q >> (https://www.fs.com/products/29123.html) and it does the job. Advanced >> features like MPLS and such are not available, but for the money I'm >> quite happy. >> >>
