battleop
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DaMaGeINC
The Lan Man
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clubs: | Nice find. |
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NetAdmin
join:2008-05-22 | reply to battleop
Good find... Nice equipment. I was sort of surprised to see them using HP switches instead of Cisco.
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TomS_
debugger it
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Australia
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September 12th, @10:36AM
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HP switches are really actually quite nice. If I wasnt using Cisco, I'd probably be using HP. I have had one in the past, nothing but praise for HP switches from me.
I know others that use them aswell, nothing but praise from them too.
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battleop
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| We use all Cisco in our datacenter. I've heard good things about the HP switches. If I didn't use Cisco I would look at Foundry or HP. Our upstream provider uses World Wide Packet on their side of our link and they always have good things to say about the WWP gear. |
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luminaire
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That's pretty cool, thanks for posting the link. We've used WWP packet switches on our edge before, and they are decent simple little switches. I still like Cisco everywhere though  .
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battleop
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00000 | Heh the WWP switches are prettier than the Cisco |
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webnetwiz
There's no place like 127.0.0.1
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join:2004-09-22
Van Nuys, CA
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Ah, I feel I must post to give this particular vendor a voice. If you look carefully at the right corner of this picture: »mediaarchive.cern.ch/MediaArchiv···Icon.jpg, you will see that infact ALL core gear CERN uses is Force10 Networks E1200 TeraScale switches. HP is used for some access, but Force10 is the core of that whole infrastructure. Reason for that is that Cisco simply doesn't have a switch fast enough and with as much 10G/1G density as Force10. Force10 Networks has a specific niche in high port density and very fast switching, and as such is the core equipment for Google and Yahoo!.
P.S. I do not work for Force10, but had the pleasure to install a TeraScale E1200, and it's a good piece of equipment. |
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DaMaGeINC
The Lan Man
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clubs:
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September 12th, @02:00PM
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PS. The link you posted was the thumbnail. Here is the high res. |
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webnetwiz
There's no place like 127.0.0.1
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Yea, I just saw the high res link, you beat me to it. I was up in Force10's HQ a few weeks ago to run a load test on a pair of E600s. Very impressive if you have a large DC and don't need any additional features like MPLS and VRF (which is coming to Force10 gear soon). |
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yaplej
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White City, OR | reply to battleop
So very pretty. |
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DaMaGeINC
The Lan Man
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clubs: | said by yaplej  :So very pretty. So very true. Its emotional to me! |
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DaMaGeINC
The Lan Man
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| I cant wait to show you guys all my fiber that I am wiring my house up with again! The first time was a test, and now its going to be full scale.
2 Layer 3/4 Gigabit Fiber AT 9812t switches. 4 Gbics installed.
That all you get for now.
Look in the BBR Home Photos Forum for more.
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