[127209] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Advice regarding Cisco/Juniper/HP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Thrift)
Thu Jun 17 16:54:02 2010
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 02:41:21 +1200
From: Andrew Thrift <andrew@networklabs.co.nz>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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I can tell many stories about 3com switches, email me off list, the
language used will not be suitable for the list.
On 18/06/2010 2:27 a.m., Jack Carrozzo wrote:
> A couple consulting gigs I did had 3Com stuff since it was cheap and they
> got educational deals. They were consulting me to put in Cisco gear ;-) This
> was admittedly 3-4 years ago.
>
> I've never met anyone who has told me positive stories about 3Com equipment,
> but I suppose I'm biased also from the horror stories.
>
> My $0.02,
>
> -Jack
>
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Andrew D Kirch<trelane@trelane.net>wrote:
>
>
>> On 06/17/2010 09:52 AM, James Smith wrote:
>>
>>
>>> So my questions to the NANOG community are: Would you recommend HP over
>>> Cisco or Juniper?
>>>
>>>
>> Not for core networking.
>>
>> How is HP's functionality and performance compared to Cisco or Juniper?
>>
>>>
>> HP's Procurve switches have been around forever, they're about the same
>> quality as a 2xxx 3xxx Cisco, but nothing better
>>
>> Does anyone have any HP networking experiences they can share, good or
>>
>>> bad?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> never had any issues with them.
>>
>>
>>
>
