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Opinions on HP ProCurve switches?

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Sunner

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Just wondering if anyone around here has used these for any lenghts of time?
We're looking at buying a bunch of 2848's, just figured I'd see what people think about them?
Especially compared to Cisco Catalysts(their 3650's would be the most comparable ones no?).

Anyone?
 
They used to be solid, just big and heavy. But like all things HP, I wouldn't touch a current generation model. I'm sure they've been cost optimized and are just a Taiwanese product with an HP logo and price.

I'm not familiar with the 3650, only the 3550 and 3750. The 3750 are decent switches, also check out the Extreme Summit 48si and the equivalent Foundry switch. If you don't need the L3 capability, consider the Dell switches, though they just replaced their nice proven 3348 switches with a totally new architecture 3448 switch with *no EOS notice to customers*, thus demonstrating Dell's cluelessness about the enterprise market. SMC and D-Link are also worth considering for L2-only stackable switches.
 
I have used a newer procurve, and it worked fairly well. If cost is similar, I would definatly go Cisco, as the features are much better and easier. The HP CLI seemed a clunky rip off of IOS. I havn't used, but have heard decent things about the Foundry switches. I guess an important thing is what will you be doing? Port security, VLAN, Trunking, etc.
 
Well, the reason we're looking at HP is that they're less than half the price of equivalent Cisco switches.
Guess we'll just buy one and give it a trial with something less important 🙂
 
Didn't they make the MMAC plus???
😉

-edit I just did a RFP for about a 3 million network to all the major players. Enterasys and Cisco were withing 2%. In fact all of them were within 5%.
 
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