[127226] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Advice regarding Cisco/Juniper/HP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sandone, Nick)
Thu Jun 17 16:56:36 2010
From: "Sandone, Nick" <nick.sandone@cdicorp.com>
To: Bill Blackford <bblackford@gmail.com>, Tom <bifrost@minions.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:01:22 -0400
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim1Xjvc3fEjfTthGDc29lVxyivGZKRvU9-MFBQj@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I would also add Brocade/Foundry to the mix as well. We've been deploying=
these switches with great results. Since the IOS is very similar to Cisc=
o's, the transition has been quite easy.
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Blackford [mailto:bblackford@gmail.com]=20
Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2010 12:49 PM
To: Tom
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Advice regarding Cisco/Juniper/HP
Not to stir the pot, but Extreme is making some good products at a low cos=
t and have lifetime warranties. I've been using them lately in the end-use=
r edge as lower cost POE termination. They do LLDP-MED flawlessly so Cisco=
, or other phones get their voice vlan and pass the data vlan. Now, they a=
re missing some of the prime-time features found in J and C which is why I=
wouldn't recommend them in the agg or core.
-b
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Tom <bifrost@minions.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jun 2010, James Smith wrote:
>>
>> So my questions to the NANOG community are: Would you recommend HP=20
>> over Cisco or Juniper?
>
> Pretty much never, unless you're talking about a rebadged Brocade produc=
t.
> Every time I've seen HP networking gear in production, its usually=20
> before it gets replaced with something else. The last install I dealt=20=
> with was having so many problems it had a constant %10 packetloss on a s=
imple flat network.
>
>> How is HP's functionality and performance compared to Cisco or Juniper?=
>
> Typically poor, but this varies widely with the series of HP gear.
> The software updates available also vary widely in quality, and I have=20=
> rarely gotten a good answer from HP support on anything.
>
>> Does anyone have any HP networking experiences they can share, good=20
>> or bad?
>
> To end on a positive note, HP does have a good warranty, is typically=20=
> fairly low cost and provides free software updates.
>
> -Tom
>
>
--
Bill Blackford
Network Engineer
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