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New Switch Gear / Various Goodies

I didn't even know Sonicwall made access points.

We have a few floating around. It's not perfect, but they do a good job

reply to calvinj
I wish Sonicwall would pass on already, I've never heard anything good about their WiFi solutions.

reply to calvinj
Phew... glad to know I'm not the only one who uses powerconnects (poe versions) to get the job done.

Everything we have is Power Connect. Good Switches!

we have been replacing our hp switches with power connects slowly, not that we are unhappy with the HP's we just want to standardize.

reply to calvinj
I have to say that I haven't been happy with the PowerConnects; I much prefer HP, Juniper, or Cisco switches.

The biggest issue I've had with them is the lack of CLI management, and the packet forwarding rate tends to be on the low side (can't push wire speed Gig with a forwarding rate 100mbps). I'm sure they're better now, but at the time they were somewhat lacking in specs.

I've got to say I'm unhappy with the juniper EX 4200's (bought in mid 2010)
in the first few weeks they crashed repeatedly, one of the times required loading new software via serial, the last "solution" has been to upgrade to the latest software just to make them stable and yet the web interface and the telnet interface still crash (atleast their main use, ie ethernet switching, has been stable now)

its a sad thing with some crappy netgears out do a $30,000 switch stack.

reply to sk1939
I think the CLI is pretty powerful on the ones that we have (3500, 5400, 6200). About the only thing I use the gui for anymore is to look at address tables.

We haven't had speed issues with ours, but then again we are a small manufacturing company of about 50 total users

reply to DarkLogix
I've heard that, we mostly use Cisco and HP for switching fortunately. Some of Juniper's latest issues have me questioning their reliability, like that bad BGP/OS update that brought down Level 3 (»www.truedigitalsecurity.com/blog···nternet/).

It is isn't it? I personally prefer Brocade over Juniper, but alas that's not where the corporate focus is.

reply to calvinj
I remember the last time I used it, it lacked the level of detail that I was used to, it was clearly intended to be web managed. Again, maybe they changed it.

True. One of the focuses for the client that had the PowerConnects was pushing wire speed gigabit to the desktop for voice and data. That was also around 2008, so quite some time has passed since then.

reply to sk1939
I prefer cisco over juniper but higher ups wanted juniper even though a cisco 3750G (or X which ever was current at the time) would have saved over 1000 per switch and gotten all the same features (poe, dual power supplies(without having to order the 2nd as another line item), 48gig ports, 2 10gig capable ports, ect)

the juniper WXC (wan accelarator actually slows the wan to a crawl so its basicly fully disabled)

the only thing that was good was that it allowed us to get rid of the netgear stack (but other than that no improvment)

I know, but the 3 switch netgear stack (btw I do mean stack they had a stacking cable type link) was far more reliable than the junipers

messing with vlan configs on them was total crap and super easy to forget to hold ctrl and accedently clear a part of the config (so we pretty much didn't use vlans on the netgears)

reply to Paulg
Netgear is the devil. We tried to setup one the other night for a buddy and it just would not work to save it's life. I also have one at home in my lab and what a cluster fuck that is. Using the GUI don't bother.. Using the CLI.. Painful. Makes me want to go out and cause gratuitous violence

You got it wrong
Juniper is the devil
Netgear is his sidekick

For switches maybe.

Juniper router's I've seen so far have only been slightly less bad
the juniper router hasn't crached taking down the office I'm in yet, but it has at another office (weekly)