[82590] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Switch advice please - followup
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Foster)
Fri Jul 22 19:04:53 2005
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.050722113913.nmh@daemontech.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 11:01:10 +1200 (NZST)
From: "Mark Foster" <blakjak@blakjak.net>
To: "Nicole" <nmh@daemontech.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
>
>
> Thanks to everyone for their advice and stories. It seems the popular
> choice
> is Cisco with a close second of foundry. Even a nice mention of Dell
> switches.
> Most people had nothing good to say about HP. (phew.. glad I asked you
> all) I
> completely forgot abt Foundry so they are my next stop!
> Oddly no one mentioned 3com. I don't know if that's good or bad.
>
>
> The sad part is I hate Cisco. Well I hate IOS. It is the most counter
> intuitive interface known to man. We currently have several 3550's and one
> that
> is still partially brain dis-functional after a "senior network engineer"
> at a
> hosting facility got a-hold of it to "help out".
>
> To be honest I miss Ascend. Nice interfaces with actual menu's and
> interface
> for those of us who don't need 50 ways to do something or only find they
> need
> to touch their switches once a year for upgrades or whatever. You could at
> least wander through the menu's to figure out/remind yourself what to do.
>
> If anyone makes a switch with this type of menuing that can actually pass
> lots of bits well and is not a consumer toy. I want to know :)
>
Nortel?
3Com aren't too bad. From memory Nortel are actually better at higher
throughput levels.
Nortel has a GUI Device Management system via SNMP which is pretty good.
They also have intuitive HTTP access for most things and the console gives
you a menu or a commandline option.
Look at the Nortel 5510/5520/5530 switches for Gigabit throughput...
Mark.
