Mystery open source switching company claims top-of-rack price edge (was Re: Pica8 - Open Source Cloud Switch)

Mon Nov 1 02:25:53 UTC 2010

Hi Paul,

On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 2:07 AM, Paul WALL <pauldotwall at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't know what the big deal is.  I've rolled at least 20 of these
> switches into my network, and not only are they more stable than the
> Centillion switches that they replaced, they only cost half as much.
> Most of the money I dropped was on converting my stations from token
> ring to ethernet.

All of the people that responded to this thread are not complaining
about the hardware.
They are complaining about Guillaume's spam strategy.

Other than that are you comparing apples to apples when you compare
Nortel ATM switches (with EOL somewhere in 2004) with new ethernet
hardware?

Bas