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

[Tim Smith]

Yep.. but they will announce an effective end of support where they wont
replace it any more...

And did you get a replacement next business day? :)

Cheers,

Tim


On 7/18/08, Jonathan Charles <jonvoip at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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