[131659] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Mystery open source switching company claims top-of-rack price
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Sun Oct 31 22:51:11 2010
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: bas <kilobit@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikntnm8yUoW=9cyPE_w6foCkjDnOvFene8Tb1y6@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 19:51:20 -0700
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Oct 31, 2010, at 19:25, bas <kilobit@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 2:07 AM, Paul WALL <pauldotwall@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I don't know what the big deal is. I've rolled at least 20 of these
>> switches into my network, and not only are they more stable than the
>> Centillion switches that they replaced, they only cost half as much.
>> Most of the money I dropped was on converting my stations from token
>> ring to ethernet.
>
> All of the people that responded to this thread are not complaining
> about the hardware.
> They are complaining about Guillaume's spam strategy.
>
> Other than that are you comparing apples to apples when you compare
> Nortel ATM switches (with EOL somewhere in 2004) with new ethernet
> hardware?
DJ Paul Wall only recently upgraded from FDDI...
> Bas
>
>
