Travis Johnson wrote: > 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.
A lot depends on the company that originally made the hardware. In some cases, Cisco bought a great hardware manufacturer, in which case that hardware lasted a long time. In other cases, they acquired a crap company, painted Cisco on it, and then kludged in their shell environment. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
