[93211] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: CWDM equipment (current favorites)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Hughes)
Tue Oct 31 11:23:53 2006
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:22:52 +0000 (GMT)
From: Mike Hughes <mike@smashing.net>
To: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <45466197.60106@ai.net>
X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: mike@plate.smashing.net
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On Mon, 30 Oct 2006, Deepak Jain wrote:
> Since then, I have actually touched some of the MRV product line personally
> and found it (and their customer support)... less than ideal. (not comparing
> to anyone else, and no one is really ideal).
We're lucky enough that they have a helpful/clueful distributor here in
the UK.
> The bigger problem was that the devices seem to be less than intuitive, but
> rock solid once they are working. (which is what everyone praised them for).
Agreed, though the poor UI meant that debugging a cable problem on a span
was much harder than it needed to be.
I really wish they had syslog implemented, but look at it this way, it
could be worse. At least you don't have to talk TL1 to them ;-).
Cheers,
Mike
