[150525] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: HP A6600 experiences
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Netengr)
Sun Feb 26 18:40:31 2012
In-Reply-To: <CAOC=LuUWnVDqxAXKinTSBq3qwsyOsXmvXueWhR=g4ucuTX2bOA@mail.gmail.com>
From: Netengr <netengr@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 07:39:31 +0800
To: Brent Jones <brent@brentrjones.com>
Cc: NANOG mailing list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Hi Brent,
Was your experience is with procure range or H3C? So far I found no issues w=
ith H3C it's multicore 10G platform comes with Comware which is the same OS a=
cross H3C routers and switches.
Chris, if you need more power there is another higher model 8800 platform=20=
Regards
Ubaid
On 25-Feb-2012, at 14:15, Brent Jones <brent@brentrjones.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Christopher Pilkington <cjp@0x1.net>wrot=
e:
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>> If anyone has any experiences they'd be willing to share, or even lab
>> reports, on HP A6600, it would be helpful. I believe this is the same
>> product as H3C SR6600.
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>> We're being asked to "look at" A6604 facing our IPv4/IPv6 transit. I'd
>> like to get some opinions before I go through effort of getting one in th=
e
>> lab.
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>> -cjp
>>=20
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> If HP's modular chassis are anything like their fixed configuration, I
> would stay away from them.
> We abandoned all HP networking equipment due to gross bugs and firmware
> incompatibility.
> We tried to deploy 10Gb with HP, but they had shipping hardware, with no
> firmware to support the modules. Now they recommend us switching all our
> Procurve line with H3C.
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> Needless to say, we will not buy HP/H3C equipment ever again, lesson
> learned.
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> Juniper, Force10, Arista, and Cisco (surprisingly) make much better gear
> these days at much more competitive pricing.
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> --=20
> Brent Jones
> brent@brentrjones.com
