10 Oct
2008
10 Oct
'08
1:32 a.m.
Dave McGuire wrote:
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.
A company I worked for a couple of years ago dropped Cisco and went for
a Chinese company called Level One. They weren't exactly brilliant, but
they were a quarter of the price. Oh, and crucially - and this is
important for unattended sites - we didn't have any unexplained PSU
fires (yes, fires) like we had with Cisco.
Gordon