I have an Extreme Network switch. I use it at one of my WAN offices. It was a real pain to get going compared to my old 3COM switches. I had to call support a few times since things I thought should be working by default I had to enable. But, once I got it working, no problems at all. Tom
>>> Paul Hutchings <[email protected]> 10/27/2011 1:00 PM >>> Thanks Ben. One of the other vendors we're looking at is Extreme Networks. Same question(s) goes if anyone is familiar with them I guess... From: Ben N [[email protected]] Sent: 27 October 2011 8:56 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Juniper Networks Switches? I love JUNOS. just learned it about a year ago with the SRX Firewalls and the EX 4200 switches (i have 4 SRX and 12 EX4200). it is a joy to use after using Cisco IOS for sooo many years. The web GUI is slow, but the CLI is super fun to use. There isn't a huge difference either between FW and SW like there is with Cisco IOS for ASA and SW. On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Anders Blomgren <[email protected]> wrote: No, we just use the cli or the builtin web GUI, which isn't bad at all. There ain't nothing you can do in the cli which isn't exposed in some form in the GUI. A neat thing is port profiles which saves your techs from having to assign vlan and voice vlan. Just define once and use on ports. -Anders Sent from my iPhone On 26 okt 2011, at 21:40, Paul Hutchings <[email protected]> wrote: Will do. Do you have any experience of their management platform? It’s one area where I guess we’ll speak to the reseller but the info on the Juniper website is minimal at best – Junoscope I believe? I’m not afraid of a cli but equally if a vendor makes a tool to make my life (and others who may not have a day to day reason to care about a cli) easier I’m all for it. Paul From: Anders Blomgren [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 26 October 2011 19:28 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Juniper Networks Switches? Please let me know what you think after a little hands on. I love working with the Junos cli. Commits instead of direct edits, automated rollback if you don't confirm commits and so on. And like any stacked product, you manage it as one switch. 38 physical switches here but only 6 stacks to manage. -Anders Sent from my iPhone On 26 okt 2011, at 13:46, Paul Hutchings <[email protected]> wrote: Thanks Anders, appreciate the info. We’ve spoken to a reseller who is accredited with Juniper and the phone vendor we have in mind and we’re going to go speak to them and try and get a little hands on. Management capability is probably going to be the key to any decision. Thanks again, Paul From: Anders Blomgren [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 25 October 2011 22:08 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Juniper Networks Switches? Our whole network is basically a bunch of EX-4200's in various stacks. Smb, afp, nfs, iscsi, you name it. Except for voip. :) But the gui has settings for voice vlan for a simple switchport and they come in all-POE versions as well so I have a hard time seeing why they wouldn't work well for voip. We're pleased with both the performance and features, which is at the higher end of access switches. Think Cisco 3750 if it means anything to you. We even do all our routing except for bgp peering in a pair of stacks using vrrp. I have no experience with EX2200, EX2500, EX3200 or EX3300. I do know that some features that are included in the EX4200 are licensed separately for the others. You'll have to ask your reseller for what those are. -Anders On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Paul Hutchings <[email protected]> wrote: Thanks Anders. I guess the basic question is whether it's any good? Our needs are reasonably simple on a technical level (I think!). What we are keen on, if possible, is to try and get a vendor with one OS across their range. Right now we have an eclectic mix of vendors kit and frankly it's a nightmare. Moving to a single vendor won't happen quickly but it's what we're trying to aim for and it seems that if you take HP and Cisco as two examples, you can buy two different models and you're not necessarily running the same OS. I suspect we'll get a vendor in who can offer a solution with what currently looks like the phone platform we're going for - that's the other fun part, finding a one stop shop so the phone vendor doesn't point fingers at the switch vendor and vice versa. Paul From: Anders Blomgren [[email protected]] Sent: 25 October 2011 7:12 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Juniper Networks Switches? We use EX switches in a stacked configuration. Juniper calls it a Virtual Chassis. Our VoIP network is totally separate as its a hosted solution and the vendor wouldn't commit to full responsibility if we put it on the same switches. 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