Why you get what you pay for
by admin on Jun.16, 2006, under Networking, Uncategorized
This is my first blog on my new blog site and I am going to start off with a rant, gotta love it. When you are in the IT world you get what you pay for. If you think that you can skimp on equipment and software and it will be good enough you are wrong. You may be able to send a few thousand $$$ less up front but you will pay for it in the long wrong through down time and man hours. I am a Cisco guy, I prefer in most situations to use Cisco routers/switches/firewalls/etc… because they are quality and work well together. I just started working on a network that has Cisco switches, Dell Switches and Intel switches and the network doesn’t run smooth. The different vendors of switches don’t play well together and in fact the dell switches of different models don’t even play well together. Take my advice and buy Cisco network gear.
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June 21st, 2006 on 10:06 am[...] I got another comment on my earlier blog Click Here on different network gear working well together. Most of my experience is with straight Cisco gear but in dealings with various equipment from various vendors I would say just stick with a standard. If you want to run all 3COM switches or all Intel switches just stick with it. I would stay away from the Dells because they don’t even seem to follow standard between their models. Also as far as a business I would never got with a consumer grade product like Linksys or Dlink. Cisco does own Linksys but it is “consumer grade” and will not hold up well in a business environment. Also if you are just doing a flat network with no VLAN tagging, no trucking nothing fancy it makes less of a difference, if you are going to be putting multiple VLANS on a switch, setting up etherchannels, etc… go with a quality product like a Cisco. [...]
June 16th, 2006 on 3:31 pm
what would some good choices (links) for cisco products? How big should your network be before using cisco? Switches, routers, wifi, etc?
June 20th, 2006 on 4:24 pm
I agree with you when you state that you get what you pay for and companies need to spend the money to make money. Unfortunately companies have to make sacrafices and attempt to save money where they can. You mentioned that Dell’s systems did not play well will each other, but what about an all intel network? or a linksys network. granted that cisco owns linksys, but do they play as well with each other?