Yes, they are up there when it comes to reliability. They're always willing to do pilot testing (30, 45, 60 days) too.
*ASB *(My XeeSM Profile) <http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker> *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage...* * * On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Steven M. Caesare <scaes...@caesare.com>wrote: > Ah, interesting… ok thanks. > > > > -sc > > > > *From:* Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Friday, October 22, 2010 7:06 AM > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Enterasys gear... > > > > BTW, they provide OEM for many of the tier-1 vendors. The switches in many > blade systems from IBM, etc, come from BladeNetworks. > > > > *ASB *(My XeeSM Profile) <http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker> > *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage...* > * * > > > > On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Steven M. Caesare <scaes...@caesare.com> > wrote: > > Anybody here using it? > > > > -sc > > > > *From:* Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Thursday, October 21, 2010 1:11 PM > > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > > *Subject:* Re: Enterasys gear... > > > > You should look at tech from Blade Networks... > > > > *ASB *(My XeeSM Profile) <http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker> > > *Exploiting Technology for Business Advantage...* > * * > > > > On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Steven M. Caesare <scaes...@caesare.com> > wrote: > > …blows chunks. > > > > We had two 10Gb switches(C5’s) in the datacenter go south last night.... > both locking up the port on the CORE switch(S4) they were connected to. > These switches were just installed last Friday. > > > > Of course, the core switch shows an error condition on the front panel LED > (solid orange), and activity on that port simply ceases, yet the CLI happily > reports that port connection status is OK. > > > > This is the 4th C5 out of less than 10 that we’ve had issues with. Their > other models and previous generation gear all seems to have similar issues. > > > > We have been stuck with it here for a while now, but this piece of straw > may have broken the camel’s back. > > > > -sc > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin