> Woah these are around $5k. For what it's worth I did not pay 5k USD for it, that is significantly overpriced for it on the 2nd hand market. > for business,

> Woah these are around $5k. For what it's worth I did not pay 5k USD for it, that is significantly overpriced for it on the 2nd hand market. > for business, just pay the bucks to be able to pass the buck - ie get a packaged solution not homebrew There is a significant cost difference here, The overall point of the post is that the "packaged solution" is not viable when most switch vendors have what I can describe as "crap" software quality and/or support. So if you are in the land of simple L2 switching and L3 routing, this switch is amazing because you can escape the crap vendor software.