HP A6600 experiences
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
I thought the A6604 was EOL? http://h17007.www1.hp.com/docs/products/eos/Select_HP_A6600_Routers_and_Modu... -- Leigh
-----Original Message----- From: Christopher Pilkington [mailto:cjp@0x1.net] Sent: 24 February 2012 19:05 To: NANOG mailing list Subject: HP A6600 experiences
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
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On Feb 24, 2012, at 17:43, Leigh Porter <leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com> wrote:
I thought the A6604 was EOL?
http://h17007.www1.hp.com/docs/products/eos/Select_HP_A6600_Routers_and_Modu...
Yes, and the recommended replacement is... the A6604. (Read whole EOL announcement.)
-cjp
HP 6604, 6608 both models has FIP modules FIP 100 and FIP 200 only these modules are now replaced with FIP 110 and FIP 210 those comes with double the power of earlier models. So A6604still available with FIP 210 Regards Ubaid On 25-Feb-2012, at 6:45, Leigh Porter <leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com> wrote:
I thought the A6604 was EOL?
http://h17007.www1.hp.com/docs/products/eos/Select_HP_A6600_Routers_and_Modu...
-- Leigh
-----Original Message----- From: Christopher Pilkington [mailto:cjp@0x1.net] Sent: 24 February 2012 19:05 To: NANOG mailing list Subject: HP A6600 experiences
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
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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
Hi Brent, Was your experience is with procure range or H3C? So far I found no issues with H3C it's multicore 10G platform comes with Comware which is the same OS across H3C routers and switches. Chris, if you need more power there is another higher model 8800 platform Regards Ubaid On 25-Feb-2012, at 14:15, Brent Jones <brent@brentrjones.com> wrote:
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
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