Re: OT - Miercom - Are they really unbiased?

From: Muhammad Nasim (muhammad.nasim@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Sep 05 2008 - 10:22:51 ART

No one can trust Mericom as I stated below it seems to me that Cisco has
HEAVY shares in Mericom.
Please look into IDC or Gartner reports and most importantly as Dale
mentioned do your own tests.

HTH

2008/9/5 Dale Kling <dalek77@gmail.com>

> I work in a lab environment and we do our own tests based on the
> requirements of the project. I've been heavily involved in a multicast
> project for some time now and I Can tell you that most hardware I've tested
> does not perform as advertised. Now what we have been able to do is go
> back
> to the vendor and tellthem our problem. They get the BU involved on the
> product line with the developers and provide a fix.
>
> IMO, I believe getting demo gear and testing it yourself is the best way,
> although I don't know if you can trust or not trust those Miercom reports,
> as I've never used them so I probably didn't answer your question and just
> made you read a long run-on sentence. :P
>
> Dale
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 8:57 AM, CCIEin2006 <ciscocciein2006@gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > Hi Gang,
> >
> > I am in the process of selecting new hardware and starting reading all
> > these
> > Miercom performance reports Cisco has on their web site.
> > It seems Miercom gives glowing reviews on every Cisco product and feature
> > and always seems to favor Cisco in comparison to other vendors. Normally
> > when you read product evaluations from truly independent third parties
> > there are usually some negative comments even on top rated products. The
> > Miercom reports do not have a single negative word in them!
> >
> > Which leaves me wondering - are they really unbiased? Can I trust their
> > findings?
> >
> > Don't get me wrong, I love Cisco, I even based my whole career on them,
> but
> > I don't think every single one of their products beats the competition in
> > every respect.
> >
> > What do you guys think?
> >
> >
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Muhammad Nasim
Network Engineer
Saudi Arabia

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