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

[Lelio Fulgenzi]

You'll find they are moving away from this with the "E" series of 
switches....
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jonathan Charles" <jonvoip at gmail.com>
To: "Scott Voll" <svoll.voip at gmail.com>
Cc: "Cisco VOIP Newsletter - puck.nether.net" <cisco-voip at puck.nether.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 5:14 PM
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] OT: Any one using Adtran at the access Layer?


> 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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