Voice over IP Cisco - Speaking of Express 500s

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Speaking of Express 500s

Voll, Scott

2006-02-19, 8:17 am

Has anyone used a Cat. Express 500 in production yet. We currently use
3560's and will continue to use 3560's but we also make suggestions to
our School districts as to what to buy. cisco has always been more
expensive but with the 500's this has changed. We have previously
suggested the HP procurves but the price is almost the same. And more
of my Schools are looking at VoIP so we would like them to start
thinking in this direction, but since we have not been able to get a
demo yet, and you guys always have great information, I would like to
hear from you. I don't like not having the CLI but other then that and
the backplane (which shouldn't matter for k12 schools) do they work well
or are they buggy?

Thanks

Scott

Israel Lang

2006-02-19, 8:17 am

I have two in production right now. Had a few issues out of the box, but
that was more related to learning the GUI than the switch itself, I think. I
am still not comfortable with the lack of flexibility that a GUI only switch
affords, but for those that are concerned about price this is better than
some alternatives.

Israel

On 2/17/06, Voll, Scott <Scott.Voll@wesd.org> wrote:
>
> Has anyone used a Cat. Express 500 in production yet. We currently use
> 3560's and will continue to use 3560's but we also make suggestions to our
> School districts as to what to buy. cisco has always been more expensive
> but with the 500's this has changed. We have previously suggested the HP
> procurves but the price is almost the same. And more of my Schools are
> looking at VoIP so we would like them to start thinking in this direction,
> but since we have not been able to get a demo yet, and you guys always have
> great information, I would like to hear from you. I don't like not having
> the CLI but other then that and the backplane (which shouldn't matter for
> k12 schools) do they work well or are they buggy?
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> Scott
>
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Carter, Bill

2006-02-19, 8:17 am

I wish they had Regular SMARTnet instead of Next Business Day SMB.

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[mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Israel Lang
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 12:30 PM
To: Voll, Scott
Cc: cisco-voip@puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Speaking of Express 500s

I have two in production right now. Had a few issues out of the
box, but that was more related to learning the GUI than the switch
itself, I think. I am still not comfortable with the lack of flexibility
that a GUI only switch affords, but for those that are concerned about
price this is better than some alternatives.

Israel

On 2/17/06, Voll, Scott <Scott.Voll@wesd.org> wrote:

Has anyone used a Cat. Express 500 in production yet.
We currently use 3560's and will continue to use 3560's but we also make
suggestions to our School districts as to what to buy. cisco has always
been more expensive but with the 500's this has changed. We have
previously suggested the HP procurves but the price is almost the same.
And more of my Schools are looking at VoIP so we would like them to
start thinking in this direction, but since we have not been able to get
a demo yet, and you guys always have great information, I would like to
hear from you. I don't like not having the CLI but other then that and
the backplane (which shouldn't matter for k12 schools) do they work well
or are they buggy?

Thanks

Scott

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Jason Burton

2006-02-19, 5:45 pm

Just an FYI I've dealt with two the Cat 500 and both went bad within 1 month.

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Subject: RE: [cisco-voip] Speaking of Express 500s

I wish they had Regular SMARTnet instead of Next Business Day SMB.

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From: cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-voip-bounces@puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Israel Lang
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 12:30 PM
To: Voll, Scott
Cc: cisco-voip@puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] Speaking of Express 500s

I have two in production right now. Had a few issues out of the box, but that was more related to learning the GUI than the switch itself, I think. I am still not comfortable with the lack of flexibility that a GUI only switch affords, but for those that
are concerned about price this is better than some alternatives.

Israel

On 2/17/06, Voll, Scott <Scott.Voll@wesd.org> wrote:

Has anyone used a Cat. Express 500 in production yet. We currently use 3560's and will continue to use 3560's but we also make suggestions to our School districts as to what to buy. cisco has always been more expensive but with the 500's this has chan
ged. We have previously suggested the HP procurves but the price is almost the same. And more of my Schools are looking at VoIP so we would like them to start thinking in this direction, but since we have not been able to get a demo yet, and you guys al
ways have great information, I would like to hear from you. I don't like not having the CLI but other then that and the backplane (which shouldn't matter for k12 schools) do they work well or are they buggy?

Thanks

Scott

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