[123609] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: 10GBase-t switch
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Balasko)
Thu Mar 11 19:25:43 2010
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:23:59 -0800
In-Reply-To: <20100311221915.0206C1CC18@ptavv.es.net>
From: Michael Balasko <Michael.Balasko@cityofhenderson.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
+1 for the Arista boxes.=20
We are a pure Cisco shop and looked at them to start replacing some gear
where it made sense. We didn't buy them because they didn't do
Rapid-PVST+ at the time. Yeah I know that's a Cisco-centric thing, but
they were tentative on implementing it but the timeline just didn't meet
our needs.=20
Observations:
Seriously knowledgeable technical/dev guys and I know for a fact that a
pile of them came from the old Cisco 4K team back when the 4K's were
walking circles around the 6K team in terms of innovation.=20
If it make sense they are willing to implement features and they did so
for us even though we were a demo.=20
We had a question way back when distance limitations with SFP+ CU/CR/DA
5 meter cables and they actually got us on the phone with folks at Intel
that normal people just don't have access to.=20
Even though we don't have any Arista kit, their initial efforts left an
excellent impression on us.=20
P.S. They will give you temp access to the site if you ask but I too
agree that it should be an open model.=20
Michael Balasko
CCSP, MCSE
Network Specialist II
City of Henderson, Nevada
240 Water St.=20
Henderson, Nevada 89015
