Advice regarding Cisco/Juniper/HP

Thu Jun 17 16:48:33 UTC 2010

Not to stir the pot, but Extreme is making some good products at a low
cost and have lifetime warranties. I've been using them lately in the
end-user edge as lower cost POE termination. They do LLDP-MED
flawlessly so Cisco, or other phones get their voice vlan and pass the
data vlan. Now, they are missing some of the prime-time features found
in J and C which is why I wouldn't recommend them in the agg or core.

-b

On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Tom <bifrost at minions.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jun 2010, James Smith wrote:
>>
>> So my questions to the NANOG community are: Would you recommend HP over
>> Cisco or Juniper?
>
> Pretty much never, unless you're talking about a rebadged Brocade product.
> Every time I've seen HP networking gear in production, its usually before it
> gets replaced with something else. The last install I dealt with was having
> so many problems it had a constant %10 packetloss on a simple flat network.
>
>> How is HP's functionality and performance compared to Cisco or Juniper?
>
> Typically poor, but this varies widely with the series of HP gear.
> The software updates available also vary widely in quality, and I have
> rarely gotten a good answer from HP support on anything.
>
>> Does anyone have any HP networking experiences they can share, good or
>> bad?
>
> To end on a positive note, HP does have a good warranty, is typically fairly
> low cost and provides free software updates.
>
> -Tom
>
>

-- 
Bill Blackford
Network Engineer

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