Any suugestion for good performance managed and unmanaged switch

[Dave Peters]

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

--Dave

--- Hunter Heinlen <dracus at speakeasy.net> 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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