Cisco Switches/Routers

[Gordon JC Pearce MM3YEQ]

Tony Duell wrote:
>> A company I worked for a couple of years ago dropped Cisco and went for 
>> a Chinese company called Level One.  They weren't exactly brilliant, but 
>> they were a quarter of the price.  Oh, and crucially - and this is 
>> important for unattended sites - we didn't have any unexplained PSU 
>> fires (yes, fires) like we had with Cisco.
> 
> OK, and how many _expalained_ PSU fires did you get with Level One?

Heh.  None, although the plugtop PSUs that came with certain Alvarion 
wireless bridges had a tendency to fail and cause weird problems like 
the bridge constantly rebooting - it would display the first few 
characters of its startup message, and then <BLINK BLINK> on the status 
lights, and it's booting up again.

I tested 20 of the "suspect" PSUs.  Four of them failed, hard.  Failed 
hard as in "blew the case apart" failed.  No, I don't know how they 
managed it.

Gordon