Re:Downtime last Saturday
by winthrowe on Thursday December 27, 2012 @09:46AM
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Not the person you replied to, but in my experience the other place Cisco shines (relatively speaking) is in hellish environments.
This isn't so much applicable to datacenter usage, but to serve some of our satellite offices reqires placing equipment in places that I'd rather not have to have any hardware; in these situations cisco has been much more reliable than the HP switches we migrated away from.
Re:Downtime last Saturday
by rdl on Thursday December 27, 2012 @02:11PM
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It's also way easier to find people with experience using Cisco equipment in "moderately complex" environments than HP/Dell/Arista/Juniper/Force10/Foundry/Extreme/etc.
This isn't so much applicable to datacenter usage, but to serve some of our satellite offices reqires placing equipment in places that I'd rather not have to have any hardware; in these situations cisco has been much more reliable than the HP switches we migrated away from.