<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by thirdfey:
x_789 ever heard of Foundry switches? Not only do they kick Cisco's @ss but they have switches that can run in any layer of the OSI model you want as long as you got da $$$$$ Cisco has wet dreams of being able to perform as well as these babies not mention those other networking companies (wannabies). http://www.foundrynet.com/products/Webswitches.html Ask and ye shall recieve, says the Lord thy Thirdfey. I don't have a God complex, I am God

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I agree 100% !

Cisco have some nice products but they are very delicate.

you may encounter a lot of difficulties in setting up to work right (even if you do it the right way !) I've seen so many cisco gear fail where other "unknown" gear worked perfectly.

It seems cisco gear although appropriate for some applications requires a lot more efforts to set up and to maintain.

I know of one site in my company where they replaced the old gear with cisco catalyst 6000. it took experts from cisco almost a week to figure out why all the ports won't go to 100Mbit. (and that's after they replaced cables, AC power sources etc..)

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