Our experience is that
1)Bug fixes are very slow
2)TAC support is no where near like Cisco TAC
3)The Hardware failure rate is crazy only yesterday
I had to RMA an RMA for a dead on arrival card.
4)Not all the hardware faults are dead on arrival
a lot of the faults make you think its a SW problem
when it is not.
My advice if you want any hair left is avoid it.
Regards,
Kevin
-----Original Message-----
From: Rubens Kuhl Jr. [mailto:rkuhljr@uol.com.br]
Sent: 10 December 2001 10:11
To: Hank Nussbacher; cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [nsp] Cisco 6509 vs Nortel 8010
Based on the description of how the PP 8010 works, presented to me by a
local office Nortel SE, they are:
- PP 8010 uses demand-based forwarding. The same old idea of caching flows
or adjacencies determined by a central CPU. Many switch-routers had this
flaw once in their evolution line, but 2001 is too late to still have this
one.
- If you need ACLs(and it's becoming less often not needing them), Cat 6K
can have very large, L4 (i.e., extended), wire-speed ACLs.
Sorry for not granting your request for strictly technical reasons, but I
think I need to remind you that LAN switching is not one of the core
businees Nortel has defined as its main targets (Wireless, Optical, Metro),
and the support quality (bug-fixing versions, for instance) has decreased a
lot for these products. If you need competitors, try Foundry and
Extreme(and may be the Enterasys/Riverstone/Marconi offers that happens to
be the same product).
>Can anyone give me reasons why a Cat6509 is preferred over a Nortel
>Passport 8010? Please stick to strictly technical reasons. :-)
Rubens Kuhl Jr.
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