Price to functionality on the say 2800 series HP and equivalent Cisco you will get a better price/warranty from HP over Cisco any day. Cisco is good stuff, really good stuff.. but the cost of managing the Cisco, TAC agreement if you don't know, and the warranty as compared to HP, always = better value for our shop to go HP.
I have had switches that are 6 years old have a bad port go bad and HP sends a refurb'd switch out next day. And you don't even have to buy a better warranty it comes with it. Unless you can show me a specific feature I need not available on HP, that would be my only reason for going Cisco at this time. Greg -----Original Message----- From: Edward B. DREGER [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 5:18 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Switch Purchase Question... MEJ> Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:03:21 -0500 MEJ> From: Micheal Espinola Jr MEJ> Over Cisco? Can you give an example? See earlier posts. Again, we're talking low-end switches; I've not run the bigger HPs. HP: Never a problem with hardware or firmware over the years. Cisco: IIRC was slower to offer SSHv2. Cisco: Unless the 29xx now has things like 802.1x, HP gets the nod. Cisco: Wicked problems with 5500 (yes, a while back) and "redundant" FEC aggregates. Cisco: Some of my bias comes from nasty experiences on their router gear not living up to spec (think: special interim IOS release because of buggy MPLS code; not reaching near advertised forwarding rates with any "real" routing processes and ACLs) HP isn't perfect, though. I wish the 25xx allowed baby jumbograms for non-802.3ad ethertypes, such as MPLS. Can't recall if the lower-end Ciscos do, either, for that matter. (Yes, some of these experiences date back several years.) Eddy -- Bandwidth, consulting, e-commerce, hosting, and network building Phone: +1 785 865 5885 Lawrence and [inter]national Phone: +1 316 794 8922 Wichita ________________________________________________________________________ DO NOT send mail to the following addresses: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -*- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -*- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sending mail to spambait addresses is a great way to get blocked. Ditto for broken OOO autoresponders and foolish AV software backscatter. ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
