On 6/18/2010 13:55, Joe Greco wrote: >> Dell switches are usually Foundry gear relabeled, so it should be ok. >> We are using Dell switches alongside actual Foundry gear in a cloud >> environment and have had no problems. > > Maybe I haven't looked recently enough, but that wasn't quite the way > it worked last time I checked. > > For example, Accton manufactured the ES4624. Dell sold this as the > PowerConnect 5224, SMC sold this as the 8624T, Foundry sold this as > the EdgeIron 24G, 3Com sold this as the 3824, etc. > > I've picked that older example simply due to the sheer number of > manufacturers doing this that I had correlated at one point, but it > was clearly NOT a Foundry switch that got rebadged as the 5224. > > If this has changed, it suggests good things about Dell's switches, > but my last serious look at Dell was where I was rapidly told a bunch > of conflicting information about the 6224, only the worst of which > turned out to be true (only supports a handful of IPv6 routes). >
There's also another factor: you may not have any idea whose rebranded switch you're getting when you buy a Dell switch. Maybe it's Foundry in batch X, but it might not be in batch Y. ~Seth
