<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Mike/Drew,</div><div><br></div><div>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 <b>N</b>5850-48S6Q due to bugs in software lockups.</div><div><br>Their current <b>S</b>5850-48S6Q is developed by Centec Neworks (
<a href="http://www.centecnetworks.com/en/SolutionList.asp?ID=91" target="_blank">http://www.centecnetworks.com/en/SolutionList.asp?ID=91</a> ) and is the E580-48X6Q (compare the changelog and manual; you will see its a "replace all" job). These switches do actually support LDP/MPLS/VPLS if you buy the license and run them in their 'ipran' profile. Feel free to contact me off list if you have any questions.</div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards,</div><div>Nick ten Cate</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2019 09:25:24 -0700<br>
From: Mike <<a href="mailto:mike-nanog@tiedyenetworks.com" target="_blank">mike-nanog@tiedyenetworks.com</a>><br>
To: <a href="mailto:nanog@nanog.org" target="_blank">nanog@nanog.org</a><br>
Subject: Re: Couple of questions about "baremetal/ONIE" networking<br>
equipment sellers<br>
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On 10/25/19 9:13 AM, Drew Weaver wrote:<br>
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> Hello,<br>
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> 1. I was reading about Cumulus and came across a note about<br>
> <a href="http://bm-switch.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">bm-switch.com</a>, does anyone have any experience purchasing switches<br>
> from <a href="http://bm-switch.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">bm-switch.com</a>? What was your experience like?<br>
> 2. Same question about hardware from FS.com any problems there?<br>
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> Thanks!<br>
><br>
> -Drew<br>
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I have some experience with FS.com - I have the S5850-48S6Q<br>
(<a href="https://www.fs.com/products/29123.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.fs.com/products/29123.html</a>) and it does the job. Advanced<br>
features like MPLS and such are not available, but for the money I'm<br>
quite happy.<br><br>
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