Not to stir the pot, but Extreme is making some good products at a low cost and have lifetime warranties. I've been using them lately in the end-user edge as lower cost POE termination. They do LLDP-MED flawlessly so Cisco, or other phones get their voice vlan and pass the data vlan. Now, they are missing some of the prime-time features found in J and C which is why I wouldn't recommend them in the agg or core.
-b On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Tom <bifr...@minions.com> wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jun 2010, James Smith wrote: >> >> So my questions to the NANOG community are: Would you recommend HP over >> Cisco or Juniper? > > Pretty much never, unless you're talking about a rebadged Brocade product. > Every time I've seen HP networking gear in production, its usually before it > gets replaced with something else. The last install I dealt with was having > so many problems it had a constant %10 packetloss on a simple flat network. > >> How is HP's functionality and performance compared to Cisco or Juniper? > > Typically poor, but this varies widely with the series of HP gear. > The software updates available also vary widely in quality, and I have > rarely gotten a good answer from HP support on anything. > >> Does anyone have any HP networking experiences they can share, good or >> bad? > > To end on a positive note, HP does have a good warranty, is typically fairly > low cost and provides free software updates. > > -Tom > > -- Bill Blackford Network Engineer Logged into reality and abusing my sudo privileges.....
