Hi fellas,
Still working a project for residential access in a dormitory and looking at switches to use. My boss, looking to save some money, has grown enamored of Nortel Baystack 450-24T switches. They seem to be everywhere for cheap these days. Found a two pallet load of 150 of them for just $1000, with 90 day warranty. Said to be pulls from a datacenter network upgrade. Great deal, and who cares if some fail if you have 50 more in storage, right?
I've looked over some specs for them (PDF) and they seem ok, if a little less dense than I'd like. They also use proprietary stacking modules and cables that seem like they'll be a pain in the butt compared to stacking with normal ethernet. Also no gigE ports - gotta buy a fiber MDA to get gigE out. The stacking modules and MDAs also seem to be everywhere thankfully.
Anyway, why does everyone seem to be dumping these??!?! I also looked for other Nortel switches (425 and 470) that were more dense (48 port), but did not find much of anything available for cheap.
Cheers
Still working a project for residential access in a dormitory and looking at switches to use. My boss, looking to save some money, has grown enamored of Nortel Baystack 450-24T switches. They seem to be everywhere for cheap these days. Found a two pallet load of 150 of them for just $1000, with 90 day warranty. Said to be pulls from a datacenter network upgrade. Great deal, and who cares if some fail if you have 50 more in storage, right?
I've looked over some specs for them (PDF) and they seem ok, if a little less dense than I'd like. They also use proprietary stacking modules and cables that seem like they'll be a pain in the butt compared to stacking with normal ethernet. Also no gigE ports - gotta buy a fiber MDA to get gigE out. The stacking modules and MDAs also seem to be everywhere thankfully.
Anyway, why does everyone seem to be dumping these??!?! I also looked for other Nortel switches (425 and 470) that were more dense (48 port), but did not find much of anything available for cheap.
Cheers
