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

[Scott Voll]

The TAs are the routers / VGW.  I was only looking at the switches.  Mohamad
said he is having good luck with them.  That was what I was looking for.

once things calm down this fall I'll get a demo and see how they work.

Scott
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Jonathan Charles <jonvoip at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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