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

[Jonathan Charles]

I bought a 3550 for the house in 2003, it blew up six months ago...
Cisco replaced it, no smartnet, just warranty... dunno if they have
lifetime on the 4/6xxx's



Jonathan

On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 4:09 AM, Tim Smith <thsglobal at gmail.com> wrote:
> Has the warranty changed recently? It used to be Limited Lifetime warranty -
> usually 10 days before they ship a replacement (For the access switches)
> And I think they were giving you 90 days on a anything above a 4500?
>
> Sure you can buy smartnet... but its not cheap.
>
> Dont get me wrong.. I love Cisco stuff, and if it was up to me, I wouldnt
> have worked on anything else... but some places just dont have the cash. For
> a cheap alternative someone like HP Procurve is a good option. Sure they
> dont have as many features as Cisco... but they usually have the most
> important ones that you actually turn on and need :)
>
> They had true lifetime warranty on the access switches.. lifetime of the
> product (until it physically disappears or disintegrates) and they normally
> ship parts next business day. I had a really old ethertwist hub at home.. it
> failed.. i logged it.. they replaced it with a new model switch. (I will say
> I did want the ethertwist switch fixed.. it was a classic.. but cant fault
> their service there)
>
> And the price was very reasonable from the start. They also have reasonably
> priced management software that wasnt too shabby either.
>
> And I believe they are also running on the international space station now..
> so that should be a fairly good reference site :)
>
> Next interesting thing would be the LLDP-MED and Cisco Phones... if they
> could autoconfigure.. it would be fairly sweet.
>
> Like I said.. love the Cisco... but there is always room for some healthy
> competition I guess.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tim.
>
> On 7/17/08, 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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