[Asterisk-Users] cheap gig switch? smc, netgear, or 3com?

[steve szmidt]

On Thursday 21 October 2004 09:16 am, Matt Hess wrote:
> There was a thread on NANOG a while back about dell switches and the
> opinion at the time seemed almost in complete agreement - dell switches
> stink for everything but pure ipv4 shuffle packets.. unmanaged without
> any features.
> They are not ciscos at all.. they have a cisco like interface but then
> again so does zebra.. but that doesn't make it a cisco either.
> And imho, being the 'wal-mart' of something isn't necessarily a good
> thing.. even wal-mart sells some total junk (to put it lightly).

And except for only the largest routers, Cisco is overpriced and under 
powered. Great support but poor value.
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Steve Szmidt

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