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 <neno...@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: ober...@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 > Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751 >
