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

Mon Nov 1 02:51:20 UTC 2010

On Oct 31, 2010, at 19:25, bas <kilobit at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?

DJ Paul Wall only recently upgraded from FDDI...

> Bas
> 
> 