What Switches do you use?
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We had a building catch fire about 6 months ago and burn up all the network equipment inside it, it is about time to order new gear (yay!) I have Cisco switches pretty much everywhere, but looking at moving away from Cisco because of purchase price and warranty/support prices. I am currently looking at a ProCurve and Adtran switch. Is there any other's that I should consider?
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Cisco we definitely avoid. Netgear ProSafe and Ubiquiti are our main ones. We are starting to use some Dell 10GigE switches now too.
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Anybody that knows me knows I'm a big fan of the HP Procurve line of Nework Switches. I've good luck with them over the last 10 years! I'll agree with you and @scottalanmiller both, though. Avoid Cisco (and by Extension, Meraki) because of the price alone.
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We just put in our first Ubiquiti. So far it has been good. Nothing much to report yet. It is in the lab.
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I may have to try out the ubiquiti switch... @scottalanmiller do you know how much noise it produces?
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No, but @art_of_shred would know. He's been standing by it lot this week.
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@scottalanmiller said:
We just put in our first Ubiquiti. So far it has been good. Nothing much to report yet. It is in the lab.
Did you get a edgeswitch or unifi switch?
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EdgeSwitch. UniFi costs more and does less.
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We use Cisco here for everything. At my last position I deployed some of the new Netgear switches with the 10Gb/s uplinks. Those were really nice.
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@scottalanmiller said:
EdgeSwitch. UniFi costs more and does less.
I have been wondering why they have the unifi section for that stuff? Especially the USG. It just seems overpriced for what you get out of it. I mean, you can control it from the same interface, but there's not really anything to control.
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@johnhooks said:
@scottalanmiller said:
EdgeSwitch. UniFi costs more and does less.
I have been wondering why they have the unifi section for that stuff? Especially the USG. It just seems overpriced for what you get out of it. I mean, you can control it from the same interface, but there's not really anything to control.
The entire point of anything with the UniFi name is single eco system.
I am quite glad that they are not f[moderated] up their other products in the name of single ecosystem but instead making it your option based on the hardware you buy.
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@johnhooks said:
@scottalanmiller said:
EdgeSwitch. UniFi costs more and does less.
I have been wondering why they have the unifi section for that stuff? Especially the USG. It just seems overpriced for what you get out of it. I mean, you can control it from the same interface, but there's not really anything to control.
UniFi, as the name implies, is them going after the Meraki market, rather than, say, the traditional Cisco market.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@johnhooks said:
@scottalanmiller said:
EdgeSwitch. UniFi costs more and does less.
I have been wondering why they have the unifi section for that stuff? Especially the USG. It just seems overpriced for what you get out of it. I mean, you can control it from the same interface, but there's not really anything to control.
UniFi, as the name implies, is them going after the Meraki market, rather than, say, the traditional Cisco market.
I guess I should have worded it differently. I was wondering why options are so limited on the gateway and switches. There really aren't hardly any configurations for the unifi stuff in the controller.
It would be nice to have the controller pull info in from the edge stuff.
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@johnhooks said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@johnhooks said:
@scottalanmiller said:
EdgeSwitch. UniFi costs more and does less.
I have been wondering why they have the unifi section for that stuff? Especially the USG. It just seems overpriced for what you get out of it. I mean, you can control it from the same interface, but there's not really anything to control.
UniFi, as the name implies, is them going after the Meraki market, rather than, say, the traditional Cisco market.
I guess I should have worded it differently. I was wondering why options are so limited on the gateway and switches. There really aren't hardly any configurations for the unifi stuff in the controller.
It would be nice to have the controller pull info in from the edge stuff.
Assuming by edge you mean the Unifi switch and the USG, I agree - give me as much centralized control as possible.
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@Dashrender said:
@johnhooks said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@johnhooks said:
@scottalanmiller said:
EdgeSwitch. UniFi costs more and does less.
I have been wondering why they have the unifi section for that stuff? Especially the USG. It just seems overpriced for what you get out of it. I mean, you can control it from the same interface, but there's not really anything to control.
UniFi, as the name implies, is them going after the Meraki market, rather than, say, the traditional Cisco market.
I guess I should have worded it differently. I was wondering why options are so limited on the gateway and switches. There really aren't hardly any configurations for the unifi stuff in the controller.
It would be nice to have the controller pull info in from the edge stuff.
Assuming by edge you mean the Unifi witch and the USG, I agree - give me as much centralized control as possible.
Well I meant edgerouter and edgeswitch. It would be nice if they the Unifi controller could pull info in from those, or gave you more customization in the Unifi stuff.
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I have a few Dell Powerconnect switches, one Netgear Prosafe POE, and 2 Ubiquiti TOUGH switches.
At home I have Ubiquiti TOUGH switch, and Cisco Meraki - I know, it will be a brick in 3 years. -
I have HP Procurve at any client that was mine when switches needed purchased.
Have not needed to purchase one in 2 years. I will likely get an EdgeSwitch from Uniquiti next.
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@johnhooks said:
@Dashrender said:
@johnhooks said:
@scottalanmiller said:
@johnhooks said:
@scottalanmiller said:
EdgeSwitch. UniFi costs more and does less.
I have been wondering why they have the unifi section for that stuff? Especially the USG. It just seems overpriced for what you get out of it. I mean, you can control it from the same interface, but there's not really anything to control.
UniFi, as the name implies, is them going after the Meraki market, rather than, say, the traditional Cisco market.
I guess I should have worded it differently. I was wondering why options are so limited on the gateway and switches. There really aren't hardly any configurations for the unifi stuff in the controller.
It would be nice to have the controller pull info in from the edge stuff.
Assuming by edge you mean the Unifi witch and the USG, I agree - give me as much centralized control as possible.
Well I meant edgerouter and edgeswitch. It would be nice if they the Unifi controller could pull info in from those, or gave you more customization in the Unifi stuff.
But that goes back to what @JaredBusch said - the Unifi gear doesn't mess with the edge gear. Two completely different product lines.
Think Meraki vs Cisco APs/switches/etc Cisco stuff doesn't manage Meraki, and Meraki doesn't manage Cisco.
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I have two new switches waiting to be installed.
One Procurve and one EdgeSwitch.
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I've changed from unmanaged switches to HP 1910s. Mostly for the price and warranty, managed switches for close to the same price of unamanged, yes please. Not really impressed with the ancient 3com management interface. I had a laugh when I spotted some 3com labels on the JG538A I got to replace the abomination that was our central network core (even with only 10 people employed at any single place it was still an abomination.)
