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On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Albert Meyer wrote: > > Having dealt with Lucent I can warn you away from them (as if I need to > nowadays). Having dealt with Cabletron I can warn you away from Riverstone. > The only company you mention which has consistently provided excellent > products and support (and never screwed me around or lied to me) is Cisco. > Their stuff is a bit overpriced, but <cliche> you get what you pay for. > </cliche> I've got a pair of ExtremeNetworks BlackDiamond 6808's running my production datacenter installation (2 8 port gig blades, 1 12 port gig blade, and 4 32 port 100TX blades each), and I love them to death. They just work (tm). -j > At 11:15 AM 6/18/01 -0500, [email protected] wrote: > > >Hi Everyone, > > > >We are an educational institution looking into building > >a scientific computing cluster that has 128-256 nodes > >interconnected by gigE. The outward connection would > >be the site FDDI ring. > > > >The problem is that we want to experiment with the topology > >as well as the computing part. :) And I am at a loss > >as to what gigE switch and router we should use. > > > >The requirements are: > >1. ability to morph the topology at will > >2. fast (doh!) > >3. Layer 1-4 is required (up to layer 7 would be nice) > >4. load balancing > > > >Which companies' products do you like? (*Barring* Cisco) > >[If you cannot state your opinion publicly, please send me a > >private reply. I appreciate it and will keep it confidential.) > > > >I am looking at these companies: > >Lucent > >Foundey Networks > >River Stone > >Alteon > >Extreme Networks > >Ericcson > > > >Would the people who have had experience with these products > >tell me what they feel? Thank you very much. > > > >Michael > >-- > >+-----------------------------------------------------------+ > >| [email protected] | [email protected] | > >| http://iteration.net/~keichii | Yes, BSD is a conspiracy. | > >+-----------------------------------------------------------+ > -- -Jonathan Disher -Sr. Systems and Network Engineer, Web Operations -Internet Pictures Corporation, Palo Alto, CA -[v] (650) 388-0497 | [p] (877) 446-9311 | [e] [email protected]
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