9 Oct
2008
9 Oct
'08
7:59 p.m.
On Oct 8, 2008, at 1:36 PM, Austin Pass wrote:
All of the secondary school networks I've been
installing recently
have been based around dual 6509's with 720 Supervisor Fabrics, 8 x
10-Gig etherchannels between them and dual 10-Gig links to stacked
3750's. Technically switches, of course, but the lines betwixt
routers and switches are seriously blurred at the high end (esp.
with the Distributed Forwarding Cards).
In a secondary school, for chrissakes! These schools are better-
equipped than most companies.
I've only been working with Cisco "big
iron" for the last 3 years
or so, but I've never been impressed with the build quality on the
6500's. Sure, the power supplies are hewn from solid basalt (or at
least weigh like they do) but the little arms that hold the port
cards in are unbelievably puny and naff. Were they always like
this or have Cisco succumbed to the declining-quality bug like so
much of the industry since the early 90's?
They're definitely dropping in build quality. It started much
later with Cisco, since maybe 2000-2001 or so. Their last
"battleship quality" switches are the 5500 series. They are built
extremely well.
-Dave
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