Cisco Switches/Routers (was: some odds and ends to get rid of)

[Dave McGuire]

On Oct 8, 2008, at 1:36 PM, Austin Pass wrote:
> All of the secondary school networks I've been installing recently  
> have been based around dual 6509's with 720 Supervisor Fabrics, 8 x  
> 10-Gig etherchannels between them and dual 10-Gig links to stacked  
> 3750's.  Technically switches, of course, but the lines betwixt  
> routers and switches are seriously blurred at the high end (esp.  
> with the Distributed Forwarding Cards).

   In a secondary school, for chrissakes!  These schools are better- 
equipped than most companies.

> I've only been working with Cisco "big iron" for the last 3 years  
> or so, but I've never been impressed with the build quality on the  
> 6500's.  Sure, the power supplies are hewn from solid basalt (or at  
> least weigh like they do) but the little arms that hold the port  
> cards in are unbelievably puny and naff.  Were they always like  
> this or have Cisco succumbed to the declining-quality bug like so  
> much of the industry since the early 90's?

   They're definitely dropping in build quality.  It started much  
later with Cisco, since maybe 2000-2001 or so.  Their last  
"battleship quality" switches are the 5500 series.  They are built  
extremely well.

           -Dave

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