[127238] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Advice regarding Cisco/Juniper/HP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Roeder)
Thu Jun 17 17:26:07 2010
From: Ben Roeder <ben.roeder@sohonet.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20100617211240.CB3891CC0D@ptavv.es.net>
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:25:53 +0100
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I am guessing they might be referring to the h3c equipment.
3com and Huewai had joint venture, that was bought out by 3com before =
they were purchased by HP=20
see http://www.h3cnetworks.com/en_US/index.page
We use the HP as edge switches in the campus networks, and they seem to =
work well.
I would be interested to hear what people think of the h3c equipment.
Hibernia seem to use them if you read the hp website
Ben
On 17 Jun 2010, at 22:12, Kevin Oberman wrote:
>> From: William Pitcock <nenolod@systeminplace.net>
>> Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 13:35:30 -0500
>>=20
>> On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 11:07 -0700, Seth Mattinen wrote:
>>> On 6/17/2010 11:01, Sandone, Nick wrote:
>>>> 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 Cisco's, the transition has been quite easy.
>>>>=20
>>>>=20
>>>=20
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>>> Do you still have to pay them to read the manual?
>>=20
>> We have plenty of Foundry gear and we've never had to pay anything to
>> read the manuals for them. Then again, we bought it all new, so it =
came
>> with printed manuals.
>>=20
>> There's a 1000+ page manual on the management software itself.
>=20
> The Brocade manuals are good, but you need to have a customer account =
to
> access them. Very annoying when you are trying to do an evaluation.
>=20
> I have spoken with one of their engineers about that and he said that
> they (the engineers and sale folks) are trying to get that changed.
> --=20
> R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
> Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
> Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
> E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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