Re: Any suugestion for good performance managed and unmanaged switch

["Dave Peters" <user=190@nabble.blu.org>]

 Thanks all for your commend. We'll go to ProCurves. 

--Dave 

--- Hunter Heinlen <[hidden email]> wrote: 

> Jack Daniel wrote: 
> > I like the ProCurves because of lifetime 
> warranties- never deal with 
> > contracts again! 
> ... 
> > I've deployed some Dells, great for the $$, but 
> not as stable as they should 
> > be (tend to crash when you work the management 
> console).  I think they are 
> > just re-branded D-Links, it might be better to go 
> direct to D-Link. 
> 
> The ProCurves, Dells, and most of the other low- to 
> mid-ranged managed 
> switches are all based on the same (Broadcom, I 
> think) switch engines. 
> So they tend to have similar features and problems. 
> The ProCurves used 
> to have the same problems with hanging when accessed 
> from the management 
> console, and Dell will probably rediscover the same 
> fix on their own (I 
> don't know what it is, but the current ProCurves 
> have the same 
> architecture but not the hanging problem, or as many 
> problems with 
> Spanning Tree, or ...).  Also, they all have a 
> back-end switch for 
> models with more then 12 ports, and the caches are 
> divided between the 
> switch engines.  So the uplink ports will all tend 
> to be on the same 
> cache, and it is easier to saturate it since all of 
> the traffic is 
> running across that one cache.  So balancing your 
> connections can help 
> to avoid dropping packets, etc.  But, at any rate, 
> they all have mostly 
> the same architecture and components, and the HPs 
> are further ahead in 
> the development curve and tend to be slightly 
> cheaper, so unless you can 
> get one from Dell et al for cheaper as part of a 
> bulk order or whatever, 
> you are usually better off with the ProCurves. 
> 
> Sorry, that was more pontification then the question 
> really needed. 
> 
> > Cisco switches are expensive for their feature set 
> and the service contracts 
> > are a royal pain. 
> 
> The Cisco also offer far more managed features 
> compared to the others. 
> But they also tend to have far more features then 
> you will use, even if 
> some of the ones they have are ones you want. 
> 
> > On the low end, I have always had amazingly good 
> luck with dirt-cheap SMC 
> > products- but I haven't deployed them anywhere 
> critical (yet). 
> 
> I didn't think that SMC had managed switches.  Then 
> again, companies 
> like Broadcom are making it nearly a clone market. 
> 
> Hunter 
> 
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