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

[Voice Noob]

I wonder why they are changing the  lifetime Warranty with the E series?

On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 7:17 PM, Lelio Fulgenzi <lelio at uoguelph.ca> wrote:

> 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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