I have about 80 Cisco 2900 and 3500 switches servicing our fiber ring.
Most of them are 5+ years old and were purchased used on ebay for $400,
and some are older. Some of these have "uptimes" of over 4 years right
now. :)
Cisco hardware just works. It's expensive, and the software can be
buggy... but the hardware works.
Travis
Microserv
RickG wrote:
"Bash" or no bash - personal experiences are being told here. I have
had great experiences with Cisco products but that doesnt mean others
have not. As a buyer of equipment, it is good to hear the good, the
bad, and the ugly so an educated decision can be made on the next
purchase. Thanks guys!
-RickG
On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 10:23 PM, John Thomas<jtho...@quarnet.com> wrote:
If you guys want to bash Cisco, that's your perogative, but my
experience has been somewhat different. We recently took on a new client
that has some Cisco switches that their old VAR sols them 5 YEARs of
Smartnets on. Since we are looking at them upgrading to some new
equipment, we asked Cisco if they would be willing to do something for
the client, and they said yes, they are willing to credit them for
existing Smartnets to the new equipment.
John
Rogelio wrote:
Mike Hammett wrote:
Agreed. I don't intend on buying anything Cisco. Over priced, under
performing, and their "we will screw you whether you like it or not"
policies. No thanks, someone else, please.
One of my clients (a big cable company) just bought hundreds of
thousands of dollars of Cisco gear, only to find that it's going to be
end of life in just a few months.
Their Cisco rep royally screwed them on that one, and when they
complained, they got nowhere and have since started to move to other
vendors.
Another client of mine in the City of San Jose is really careful about
buying anything Cisco-related after a big Cisco scandal a few years ago.
Apparently they tried to move some Cisco gear at the 11th hour into
some big proposal, and it went over like a fart in church when people
found out (it was a VoIP install, if I remember right). Now they use
Nortel, NOT Cisco.
It is my experience that Cisco reps are pretty brazen about their antics.
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