To all: Netsight is the best kept secret in the entire networking industry. Period.
Mike Hawkins Associate Director of Networking University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Sent from my Android Wireless Phone "Reed, Bill" <[email protected]> wrote: 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] --- To unsubscribe from enterasys, send email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe enterasys [email protected]
