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These responses
capture the essence of the messages that I received on the topic. Thanks
for all your input.
"If your looking for big dumb
cheap devices to just move data around a big
switched network, 3com is your vendor. If you plan on doing
anything fancier than SNMP, best look elsewhere. " "I worked with 7700 and 7700Rs, along with the
new 3xxx series, and
all I can say summarizes to simple: don't do it. There is Cisco, Enterasys, Allied Telesyn, but 3COM is just tumbling down. Line cards for 7700 are seriously limited in functionality,
current The BGP sucks, and OSPF sucks even more (it can kill whole switch
in Same thing is with the routers - 3000 and 5000 suck, the 6000
suck --------------------^ This guy went and bought C gear.
"Well, they aren’t service provider switches – they are enterprise focused, and have a very iffy SP feature set. They are also Huwei boxes, rebadged. This means they may (or may not) possess stolen intellectual property. "
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