> > > Thanks to everyone for their advice and stories. It seems the popular > choice > is Cisco with a close second of foundry. Even a nice mention of Dell > switches. > Most people had nothing good to say about HP. (phew.. glad I asked you > all) I > completely forgot abt Foundry so they are my next stop! > Oddly no one mentioned 3com. I don't know if that's good or bad. > > > The sad part is I hate Cisco. Well I hate IOS. It is the most counter > intuitive interface known to man. We currently have several 3550's and one > that > is still partially brain dis-functional after a "senior network engineer" > at a > hosting facility got a-hold of it to "help out". > > To be honest I miss Ascend. Nice interfaces with actual menu's and > interface > for those of us who don't need 50 ways to do something or only find they > need > to touch their switches once a year for upgrades or whatever. You could at > least wander through the menu's to figure out/remind yourself what to do. > > If anyone makes a switch with this type of menuing that can actually pass > lots of bits well and is not a consumer toy. I want to know :) >
Nortel? 3Com aren't too bad. From memory Nortel are actually better at higher throughput levels. Nortel has a GUI Device Management system via SNMP which is pretty good. They also have intuitive HTTP access for most things and the console gives you a menu or a commandline option. Look at the Nortel 5510/5520/5530 switches for Gigabit throughput... Mark.
