[BBLISA] Cisco versus Dell switches

[Edward Ned Harvey]

Y'know, I've always liked netgear switches myself, but I didn't know they
made managed switches.  So I'll look into that as well.  

Thanks...


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Pascoe [mailto:km3t at km3t.org]
> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 4:04 PM
> To: Edward Ned Harvey
> Subject: Re: [BBLISA] Cisco versus Dell switches
> 
> I know you're only looking at Cisco and Dell.  Don't overlook Netgear -
> I used to snub them but after testing their newer lines of switches
> find
> them to be really nice.  And stable.  The managed switches are actually
> affordable and feature rich.
> 
> I've used almost all the major manufacturers and have done work in some
> heavy duty environments...so my recommendation isn't coming from left
> field.  :-)
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> 
> Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
> > Hey everyone.  I know cisco is better; that's not the question.  The
> > question is - is cisco better in any of the ways I will care about.
> Enough
> > to outweigh the extra cost.  I'm comparing 24port managed gigabit,
> against
> > 24port managed gigabit.
> >
> > If I buy the cisco, I am sure the switches will be stable, and remain
> > operational, I can safely assume they continue doing their job at all
> times
> > with pure trust.  Until the switch suffers some total failure, and I
> RMA the
> > device.  I am prepared to face the risk that cisco RMA is 4 hour,
> while Dell
> > RMA is NBD.
> >
> > But in the past (2002) I had problems with Dell switches that would
> crash.
> > I was in a company that used experimental network hardware, but now
> it's
> > unclear if the cause was the switches or the experimental network
> hardware.
> > It's also unclear if there was a problem back in 2002, which is now
> > resolved.
> >
> > Does anyone use Dell switches, can you say you're able to work
> without
> > problems in general?  You're able to put some heavy NFS traffic
> across the
> > network, and the switches don't unexplainedly crash?
> >
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