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Brocade buying Foundry
$3 Billion dollars is a lot of money, but I can’t think of a company more worth it. Foundry makes amazing Ethernet switches. Brocade makes good Fibre Channel switches and SAN products. Foundry routers are not a shabby lot either. It will be interesting to see whether Brocade uses this to go head to head against Cisco. Juniper has been trying to go head-to-head with Cisco for awhile. Now, with a new Brocade + Foundry and Juniper, Cisco will need to stay sharp or see serious parts of its business get eroded away.
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The Changing Mac Switching Infrastructure
No one ever got fired for buying Cisco. But, I recently saw a shop where they went from Cisco to Enterasys (thanks for showing off your backbone Todd). I must say that I really liked the Enterasys switches. I looked them up and they are about 1/2 the cost of Cisco. They have great tech support and are very easy to configure, even though it’s a command line interface. The only complaint I have about them is the web interface is good for reviewing your setup but inadequate for configuration – but is good for looking at the switch configs. Maybe in time this will mature… I don’t know if they can go to the 10,000+ environments…