[c-nsp] bbq 2970

Keegan Holley keegan.holley at sungard.com
Mon Dec 27 09:19:47 EST 2010


I doubt it.  Check with your cisco rep though.

On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Chris Evans <chrisccnpspam2 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Do these devices still have an unlimited warranty?
> On Dec 26, 2010 12:04 PM, "Keegan Holley" <keegan.holley at sungard.com>
> wrote:
> > Depends on your throughput needs. Have you looked at the 2960-S series?
> > It's pretty much a 2960 with 10G stack cables. It would be a cheap way to
> > allow your environment to scale without needing routed hops or spanning
> > tree. Also, the 29xx switches are pretty well oversubscribed. I'm not
> sure
> > if that was ever an issue for you though.
> >
> > You may also want to check your UPS if you actually had a power event
> > destroy equipment. I can't think of a scenario where that would/should
> ever
> > happen. You should be looking at smoked breakers/UPS equipment, not
> smoked
> > network gear. If the same happened to your systems/disk infrastructure
> > you'd probably be in serious trouble.
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Mike <
> mike-cisconsplist at tiedyenetworks.com
> >> wrote:
> >
> >> Howdy,
> >>
> >> Drama yesterday, power outage, backups didn't last long enough to
> >> keep us running all the way thru, and then we wound up with a smoked
> 2970
> >> switch.... 3 years of uptime however, thank you for that.
> >>
> >> Im sort of thinking about what the replacement is going to be. I can
> >> see 2970-ts-e's on ebay for good prices but Id like to ask the wisdom of
> the
> >> group if there might be a better choice in the 24 port gigE with SFP
> >> category? Anything to look out for? Known bad Chinese capacitors or ?
> >>
> >> Mike-
> >>
> >>
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