Hi Mike/Drew, 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 *N*5850-48S6Q due to bugs in software lockups. Their current *S*5850-48S6Q is developed by Centec Neworks ( http://www.centecnetworks.com/en/SolutionList.asp?ID=91 ) 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. Kind regards, Nick ten Cate

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Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2019 09:25:24 -0700 From: Mike <mike-nanog@tiedyenetworks.com> To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Couple of questions about "baremetal/ONIE" networking equipment sellers Message-ID: <1f380ffc-ae44-3346-5db3-bf38d290a326@tiedyenetworks.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"

On 10/25/19 9:13 AM, Drew Weaver wrote:

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Hello,

1. I was reading about Cumulus and came across a note about bm-switch.com, does anyone have any experience purchasing switches from bm-switch.com? What was your experience like? 2. Same question about hardware from FS.com any problems there?

Thanks!

-Drew

I have some experience with FS.com - I have the S5850-48S6Q (https://www.fs.com/products/29123.html) and it does the job. Advanced features like MPLS and such are not available, but for the money I'm quite happy.