> From: William Pitcock <[email protected]> > 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: [email protected] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751
