I am guessing they might be referring to the h3c equipment. 3com and Huewai had joint venture, that was bought out by 3com before they were purchased by HP see http://www.h3cnetworks.com/en_US/index.page We use the HP as edge switches in the campus networks, and they seem to work well. I would be interested to hear what people think of the h3c equipment. Hibernia seem to use them if you read the hp website Ben On 17 Jun 2010, at 22:12, Kevin Oberman wrote:
From: William Pitcock <nenolod@systeminplace.net> Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 13:35:30 -0500
On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 11:07 -0700, Seth Mattinen wrote:
On 6/17/2010 11:01, Sandone, Nick wrote:
I would also add Brocade/Foundry to the mix as well. We've been deploying these switches with great results. Since the IOS is very similar to Cisco's, the transition has been quite easy.
Do you still have to pay them to read the manual?
We have plenty of Foundry gear and we've never had to pay anything to read the manuals for them. Then again, we bought it all new, so it came with printed manuals.
There's a 1000+ page manual on the management software itself.
The Brocade manuals are good, but you need to have a customer account to access them. Very annoying when you are trying to do an evaluation.
I have spoken with one of their engineers about that and he said that they (the engineers and sale folks) are trying to get that changed. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751