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I'm not with GitHub. Please don't take this the wrong way – can you explain some of your experiences with Cisco? I sense you're pretty loyal to Cisco. I've ha
by sounds 14y ago
I'm not with GitHub.
Please don't take this the wrong way – can you explain some of your experiences with Cisco?
I sense you're pretty loyal to Cisco. I've had the exact opposite experience, getting rock solid uptime and no-compromises performance from commodity hardware. My experience with Cisco is typified by the IOS command line: hard to use, even harder to hire someone who makes it easy, and every minute you feel the pull on your wallet. The one place Cisco seems to shine is at the boardroom table when negotiating contract renewals. :)
Again, I don't mean to offend.
- winthrowe 14y agoNot the person you replied to, but in my experience the other place Cisco shines (relatively speaking) is in hellish environments. This isn't so much applicable to datacenter usage, but to serve some of our satellite offices reqires placing equipment in places that I'd rather not have to have any hardware; in these situations cisco has been much more reliable than the HP switches we migrated away from.
- rdl 14y agoIt's also way easier to find people with experience using Cisco equipment in "moderately complex" environments than HP/Dell/Arista/Juniper/Force10/Foundry/Extreme/etc.