I run the City of Tallahassee network. 10,000 plus ports at over 128 locations across the entire county. Over 6,000 devices. Our fiber infrastructure was mostly MMF in a lot of locations and we use over 50 LC03 without a single issue for over 5 years. We also manage the entire thing with NetSight with only 3 people. Nothing but good things to say about the Enterasys solution. Bill Reed City of Tallahassee
Sent from my iPhone. On Apr 3, 2011, at 8:30 PM, "Charlie Prothero" <[email protected]> wrote: > Greetings, Enterasys gurus! I work for a small private college (limited > resources, lots of needs) in northeastern PA. Our network consists of > hundreds of ports across 30 mostly small buildings, one big Layer 2 VLAN > (because we never got around to segmenting it), and edge switches that are > well past their prime. The system has served us well, but it's time for a > forklift upgrade, edge to core. > > We went through an RFP process, accepting proposals for Brocade, Cisco, > Enterasys and Juniper. All four proposals have merit, so the decision > process is proving difficult. > > Our campus is in a rural area, with lots of space between the buildings, and > much of our fiber plant is older multimode. We would like each building to > have a gig connection back to the data center. However some of the buildings > are beyond the typical 500 meter distance limit for gig over multimode. The > multimode daisy-chains through some buildings that now have singlemode; so > Brocade, Cisco and Juniper have proposed feeding the multimode buildings from > them - essentially distributing core functions. Enterasys, on the other > hand, offers optics (LC03) that can do gig over multimode for 2 KM, so all > buildings would be able to home-run back to the data center. That has its > appeal, and I would appreciate some feedback from others using LC03's over > long MMF runs. Is that better than keeping MMF runs <500M and distributing > core functions to remote buildings? > > The other thing that attracts our attention is the Netsight suite. We have a > small staff, and at times have struggled to troubleshoot anomalies in the > switching environment. I have heard from a couple of schools that Netsight > really makes a big difference over what they had before. Anyone have good > war stories on that? > > I've gathered that Enterasys employees participate in this list, but I am > looking specifically for feedback from users. > > My apologies if this has been discussed before, but I could not find a link > to a searchable archive. > > Thanks! > > Charlie > > > Charlie Prothero > Chief Information Officer > > Keystone College > Information Technology Building > One College Green > P.O. Box 50 * La Plume, PA 18440-0200 > 570-945-8015 > > > --- > To unsubscribe from enterasys, send email to [email protected] with the body: > unsubscribe enterasys [email protected] --- To unsubscribe from enterasys, send email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe enterasys [email protected]
