* Nick ten Cate > 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.
Hi Nick, FS.com did indeed replace their N5850-58S6Q supplier a while back. It is rather idiotic of them to not change their SKU when they do so. Anyway, before it was manufactured by Celestica I think, now it is the Edge-Core AS5812-54X. The latter is very well supported by Cumulus, the former is not. You can see it is the the Edge-Core by comparing the pictures: https://www.fs.com/de-en/products/69226.html https://www.edge-core.com/productsInfo.php?cls=1&cls2=8&cls3=59&id=119 We bought a few of them. I did mail our AM before placing the order to ascertain that they would indeed deliver the AS5812-54X and to make it crystal clear that no other model would be accepted. No problem. They will also sell other Edge-Core models that's not (yet) on their website catalogue if you ask (we ordered a few AS7326-56Xes). I do not believe Edge-Core will sell direct to end-users, so resellers like FS, Cumulus Networks or HPE is your best bet if you want those. Tore
