Couple of questions about "baremetal/ONIE" networking equipment sellers

Sun Oct 27 19:20:05 UTC 2019

* Nick ten Cate

> We also have lots of experience with FS.com switches; however.. One thing we noticed really quick is that its better to order 1 and to find the actual supplier and order with them directly. FS.com is a reseller; and they will switch (no pun intended) supplier almost yearly. Real technical support is nonexistent (even though they claim it is great) and I have yet to have a single bug fixed; packet dumps and steps to reproduce included. I have removed all of our *N*5850-48S6Q due to bugs in software lockups.

Hi Nick,

FS.com did indeed replace their N5850-58S6Q supplier a while back. It is rather idiotic of them to not change their SKU when they do so.

Anyway, before it was manufactured by Celestica I think, now it is the Edge-Core AS5812-54X. The latter is very well supported by Cumulus, the former is not.

You can see it is the the Edge-Core by comparing the pictures:

https://www.fs.com/de-en/products/69226.html
https://www.edge-core.com/productsInfo.php?cls=1&cls2=8&cls3=59&id=119

We bought a few of them. I did mail our AM before placing the order to ascertain that they would indeed deliver the AS5812-54X and to make it crystal clear that no other model would be accepted. No problem.

They will also sell other Edge-Core models that's not (yet) on their website catalogue if you ask (we ordered a few AS7326-56Xes).

I do not believe Edge-Core will sell direct to end-users, so resellers like FS, Cumulus Networks or HPE is your best bet if you want those.

Tore