FINALLY - I thought I'd have to hijack my own thread here! Although I
appreciate knowing that cheap fast ethernet switches have worked for some
folks, it really doesn't answer my question...
I forgot to mention that, yes, we shall be needing POE.
So, back to my dilemma... We do have a stack of 3 Cisco 10/100 switches.
Although they are managable, it seems we have "lost that ability". They
are not POE, although we have a little gizmo that sends POE to my desk for
a little "outlet ethernet switch". The thing about the Catalysts is,
we've never needed to manage them, and they've been "hang 'em in the rack
and forget about them".
We are an incoming call center which handles about 450 veteranary
emergency toxicology cases PER DAY. At the busy times, we do seem to need
the additional through-put of the Gig switches.
SO, our installers suggest Cisco. Our IT folks at national headquarters
suggest Extreme Black Diamond.
So, again please, does anyone have any personal experience with both Cisco
and Extreme and could make some recommendations?
Thanks!
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Richard McClary, Systems Administrator
ASPCA Knowledge Management
1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802
217-337-9761
http://www.aspca.org
"Cesare' A. Ramos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 04/17/2008 07:55:53 PM:
Agreed with past posts with regards to the 1GB thought.
We have rolled out Asterisk, 3Com NBX, 3Com VXC, Avaya, and Cisco.
Never saw the need for 1GB switches at all end points. But would
highly recommend POE functionality.
As per switch, I am on the same snob group as Phil. I go ballistic
whenever I see or hear an office running a DLink, Netgear, or
Belkin. We have had great success with 3Com (primarily 3Com 4500
POE family) and Cisco. Of course 3Com is a bit lower in cost then
Cisco.
Lates.
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 1:17 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: GB switches
Perhaps a wee bit OT, and I know there are some of you who sell and
service Cisco. However...
Currently most of our network is on fast ethernet. (We have a couple of
racks, each of which has a small GB switch to tie the servers in that
rack
together.)
We are soon to dump our NEC PBX and go with VOIP. (It will _not_ be
Cisco
or Avaya VOIP.) We need more robust switches...
Currently, we have about 100 desks, each with an XP Pro PC and a phone.
We
will be going with VOIP phones (Polycom) rather than "soft phones".
NOW, although we have some of their products and appreciate them, none
of
us are "Cisco people", either by devotion or in knowing how to manage
them. We have some folks recommending Cisco GB switches. We have
another
group recommending (highly, and some of them are our equivalent in the
NYC
office) Extreme Networks BlackDiamond switches.
Does anyone "out there" have enough experience with the products of both
companies to be able to tell us the advantages of each? For example,
might the Extremes be easier for a non-certified user to do port
management? Anyone come across any tests as far as reliablility (both
for
HW failure and for dropped packets), etc?
Thanks!
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Richard McClary, Systems Administrator
ASPCA Knowledge Management
1717 S Philo Rd, Ste 36, Urbana, IL 61802
217-337-9761
http://www.aspca.org
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