On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Christopher Pilkington <cjp@0x1.net>wrote:
If anyone has any experiences they'd be willing to share, or even lab reports, on HP A6600, it would be helpful. I believe this is the same product as H3C SR6600.
We're being asked to "look at" A6604 facing our IPv4/IPv6 transit. I'd like to get some opinions before I go through effort of getting one in the lab.
-cjp
If HP's modular chassis are anything like their fixed configuration, I would stay away from them. We abandoned all HP networking equipment due to gross bugs and firmware incompatibility. We tried to deploy 10Gb with HP, but they had shipping hardware, with no firmware to support the modules. Now they recommend us switching all our Procurve line with H3C. Needless to say, we will not buy HP/H3C equipment ever again, lesson learned. Juniper, Force10, Arista, and Cisco (surprisingly) make much better gear these days at much more competitive pricing. -- Brent Jones brent@brentrjones.com