[cisco-voip] OT: Any one using Adtran at the access Layer?

[Jonathan Charles]

Well, first off, all Cisco switches have a lifetime warranty... yes,
they are expensive... yes, there are bugs, but the bugs have a
tendency to get fixed...

I have experience with Adtran, and after supporting the TA612 and 624
et al for a year or so, I can tell you, they should stick to CSUs and
buggy whips... maybe PSTN and WAN simulators...




Jonathan

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Scott Voll <svoll.voip at gmail.com> wrote:
> Going to work?..... How many bugs have I personally found?  I don't know if
> I would go quite that far.
>
> Adtran is about 1/3 of the cost / no Smartnet contracts / Free Firmware
> updates / 5 year warrenty, soon to be lifetime and all there support
> engineers are both certified on Cisco and Adtran.
>
> Thay do a lot of (so I'm told) interop with other venders (cisco).
>
> My main double take of it was for my school districts that are short on $$$
> but still wanting to do VoIP.
>
> Scott
>
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Jonathan Charles <jonvoip at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Also, let's add up what you get with Cisco.
>>
>> Support.
>>
>> More Support.
>>
>> Lots more Support.
>>
>> Oh, yeah, and no questions about whether it is going to work or not.
>>
>>
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Joe Cisco <smetsysocsic at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > The only non-cisco switches i've ever seen successfully work with
>> > Cisco phones were made by Enterasys. We have a client using
>> > exclusively Enterasys switches across their entire enterprise - access
>> > / core - everything. When properly configured they successfully
>> > negotiate CDP with the phones and split the voice traffic into the
>> > voice vlan and PC/data traffic into the data vlan if a PC is plugged
>> > into the back of the phone.
>> >
>> > They were about 1/2 the price of equivalent cisco gear. Having said
>> > that, i'd still personally pony up the extra cash for the cisco gear
>> > if it were up to me.
>> >
>> > -Joe C.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 2:33 PM, Scott Voll <svoll.voip at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >> Had a Adtran rep come by today and told us all about Adtran switches /
>> >> routers / appliances / etc and the switches sound good, but I was
>> >> wondering
>> >> if anyone on the list was using them in production with a Cisco CM /
>> >> network.  All responses welcome.
>> >>
>> >> Scott
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