Colo Questions - Page 2

freethought · 4th August 2008

Yeah, when we were there there were some big old extreme switches about, just not feeding us (directly at least, but then again, they looked like core switches).
I don't know if we were on some kind of legacy LAN (like the one they had problems with recently) but I seem to remember them doing a round of upgrades to allow them to monitor ports via SNMP. We never did get upgraded though, we were still on the crappy NetGear when we left.
I know BlueConnex use both Foundry and Extreme switches but the edge switch for us was most certainly NetGear that very occasionally needed a reboot. I never have trusted NetGear stuff, I try to like it but every time I go near it it breaks!

Maff · 5th August 2008

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Originally Posted by freethought

Yeah, when we were there there were some big old extreme switches about, just not feeding us (directly at least, but then again, they looked like core switches).
I don't know if we were on some kind of legacy LAN (like the one they had problems with recently) but I seem to remember them doing a round of upgrades to allow them to monitor ports via SNMP. We never did get upgraded though, we were still on the crappy NetGear when we left.
I know BlueConnex use both Foundry and Extreme switches but the edge switch for us was most certainly NetGear that very occasionally needed a reboot. I never have trusted NetGear stuff, I try to like it but every time I go near it it breaks!

You are correct, PH's old legacy LAN was the last segment to be upgraded to the Extreme X150/X250/X350/X450 switches for in rack distribution. There are a small number of old switches in use which are being swapped out on a rack by rack basis. All new racks since the start of 2008 are totally Extreme Networks driven (until it gets to the all Cisco routing platform)