From: Lupi, Guy (Guy.Lupi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Wed Jul 24 2002 - 13:56:28 GMT-3
We have Extreme, Cabletron, and Alcatel layer 3 switches deployed, the
Extremes are simple to configure and extremely reliable (no pun intended).
Alcatel's command line is one of the worst I have ever seen, not at all
intuitive, and we have some hardware issues with them. We used to have
problems with NAT on the Cabletrons, but if your not using NAT they are also
pretty good. All of ours run anywhere from 2-20 Mbps of traffic during the
regular business day.
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter van Oene [mailto:pvo@usermail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 12:08 PM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: Re: OT:What other vendors are you using?
I believe Extreme/Foundry are giving Cisco the most headache in the
enterprise switching market. For speed at density, force10 has a nice box
as well, though i haven't played with it.
pete
At 10:35 AM 7/24/2002 -0500, Aaron Dixon wrote:
>Sorry for the off-topic post, but I'm having difficulty getting some
>sound numbers on what other vendors are getting used. I've been reading
>the analyst reports, but I think they are skewed due to all of the
>different markets that Nortel plays in. I'm trying to determine what
>vendor is used most in the enterprise OTHER than Cisco. I'm mainly
>looking at edge routers/L3 switches and not core devices such as juniper
>and the passport.
>
>I've been looking at Extreme, Enterasys (split from Cabletron), and
>Nortel (mainly the Contivity series). Any information would be greatly
>appreciated.
>
>Regards,
>Aaron K. Dixon
>CCIE 6460
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