Couple of questions about "baremetal/ONIE" networking equipment sellers

[nick at openfiber.nl (Nick ten Cate)]

Hi Mike/Drew,

We also have lots of experience with FS.com switches; however.. One thing
we noticed really quick is that its better to order 1 and to find the
actual supplier and order with them directly. FS.com is a reseller; and
they will switch (no pun intended) supplier almost yearly. Real technical
support is nonexistent (even though they claim it is great) and I have yet
to have a single bug fixed; packet dumps and steps to reproduce included. I
have removed all of our *N*5850-48S6Q due to bugs in software lockups.

Their current *S*5850-48S6Q is developed by Centec Neworks (
http://www.centecnetworks.com/en/SolutionList.asp?ID=91  ) and is
the E580-48X6Q (compare the changelog and manual; you will see its a
"replace all" job). These switches do actually support LDP/MPLS/VPLS if you
buy the license and run them in their 'ipran' profile. Feel free to contact
me off list if you have any questions.

Kind regards,
Nick ten Cate


>> Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2019 09:25:24 -0700
>> From: Mike <mike-nanog at tiedyenetworks.com>
>> To: nanog at nanog.org
>> Subject: Re: Couple of questions about "baremetal/ONIE" networking
>>         equipment sellers
>> Message-ID: <1f380ffc-ae44-3346-5db3-bf38d290a326 at tiedyenetworks.com>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"
>>
>> On 10/25/19 9:13 AM, Drew Weaver wrote:
>> >
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >  1. I was reading about Cumulus and came across a note about
>> >     bm-switch.com, does anyone have any experience purchasing switches
>> >     from bm-switch.com? What was your experience like?
>> >  2. Same question about hardware from FS.com any problems there?
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> >
>> > -Drew
>> >
>>
>> I have some experience with FS.com - I have the S5850-48S6Q
>> (https://www.fs.com/products/29123.html) and it does the job. Advanced
>> features like MPLS and such are not available, but for the money I'm
>> quite happy.
>>
>>
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