How many Cisco devices at your work?

notgoing2fail

Hey guys, just wondering, how many of you guys deal with 100% cisco equipment at work, 50%, 25% etc etc...

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DevilWAH

100% just about. i threw out the last 3com about 2 years ago

Company not so much a fan boy, but I get to source all the equipmnt and when we had a site refresh starting about 5 years back I was in the psotition to pick and choses. Liked the CISCO kit we already hard, so replaced about 70 3com switchs with CISCO.

HAving a single manafacture on site is nice for managment, but I do some times wish I had a foundation or HP switch in amongst it just to introduce me to it.

ColbyG

Pretty much 100% save for a Blade Center or two with HP crap and some Nortel VPN stuff.

gorebrush

Networking is 100% Cisco
Servers are 100% HP

stuh84

Our IP network is almost entirely Cisco, I'd be verging on the 98-99% realm, with the odd office switch/hub being a random vendor. In terms of transaction processing, a lot is in house software implementations on Linux devices, with a mixture of old Riverstone load balancers which are being phased out and being replaced by F5s.

I know theres one or two other devices sat around, but the entire IP routing/switching infrastructure is pretty much Cisco through and through.

pitviper

100% Cisco - because that's what the few of us who have to support it know best

chmorin

100% for now, and with intentions to stay that way.

gorebrush

Oh, I forgot to add

Telephony 100% Cisco.

Yum, yum, yum.

Cyanic

99% for switching and routing. There are sub organizations that run their own stuff and we started using Motorola for our wireless bridges since Cisco has been lazy in this arena.

notgoing2fail

Wow, I can say I'm pretty shocked by the results. I really thought I'd get more 50/50....with the cost of Cisco compared to other vendors, this is indeed interesting.

For those that are in charge or have say in the equipment at your workplace, have you had other vendors cold call you and try to switch you onto their equipment?

jovan88

checkpoint here

notgoing2fail

jovan88 wrote: »

checkpoint here

Huh? But that's only one device, what about the rest of your equipment?

QHalo

Core, Access, Edge, Firewall all Cisco, but we're testing a Palo Alto firewall and NetEqualizer QoS stuff as well. So not 100%.

Undy

Uggh. I rarely chime in, just hide out in the shadows but..

Do I dare say that I just "upgraded" 20 switches to HP ProCurve

and what a mess. So less than 25% here. Just the internet edge routers and phone system is Cisco.

BTW. It wasn't my choice.

notgoing2fail

Be careful about the HP procurves, I don't have much experience with them, but from what I've read, if you have issues, support will treat you like a kid.

Meaning, you'll have to always upgrade to the latest version first before they try to help you, this could be a good or bad thing. Bad if it breaks even more things.

It takes quite some time to get up to an actual engineer, but once you do they are quite knowledgeable. But it can take you a week before you can get access to one.

That's just what I've heard through the grapevine......

allredc

A rough estimate would put us at about 5%. The rest are Allied Telesis

jovan88

notgoing2fail wrote: »

Huh? But that's only one device, what about the rest of your equipment?

failed to mention the Procurves, theyre decent devices

Ryan82

99% Cisco , 1% Juniper

burbankmarc

Undy wrote: »

Uggh. I rarely chime in, just hide out in the shadows but..

Do I dare say that I just "upgraded" 20 switches to HP ProCurve and what a mess. So less than 25% here. Just the internet edge routers and phone system is Cisco.

BTW. It wasn't my choice.

At least your phone system isn't Nortel (now Avaya). I swear, everytime we try to add a feature we have to add like 3 windows servers that run flaky ass nortel junk.

gorebrush

My parent company run HP ProCurves 100% throughout.

However, the IT Director admitted that they were weak in networking, and might want my help to build a better one...

Who knows if anything will come of such a request, but here is hope.

Undy

gorebrush wrote: »

My parent company run HP ProCurves 100% throughout.

However, the IT Director admitted that they were weak in networking, and might want my help to build a better one...

Who knows if anything will come of such a request, but here is hope.

I don't find them weak really, just unstable. 10Gbps is cheap in the ProCurve making them attractive. My 8212zl's in the core have not made it past 2 months uptime. While on the phone with HP tech support trying to see why a module continues to crash, he want a "show tech all". 10 seconds into the command and the switch decided to reload. Made for a fun Friday afternoon and certainly makes you think twice about what commands you type on production equipment. Things settled for a few weeks and then bam! Doing a "show config" doesn't work, "translator failure" and it needs to be reloaded again to fix with the possibility of a corrupt config. My problems certainly don't affect all ProCurve so I am not trying to bash, just getting some frustration out.

You just get a better feeling with Cisco because it is proven to work. Not that it is perfect or never fails, it just works.

networker050184

We were about 90% Cisco with some Juniper, Foundry and Redback. Now we are merging with another company and they are mostly Juniper with some Cisco. We have A LOT of Cisco 7200s though so the network will still be majority Cisco percentage wise.

Sett

If you consider the CatOS switches as Cisco gear as well, then it's 100%

xenodamus

I'm not on the networking team (yet

)....but from what I can tell it's about 25% where I work. Our routers/firewall are the only Cisco gear I know of. All the switches are Alcatel-Lucent and the phone system is Nortel.

I've been planning to dive into Alcatel after I finish my CCNA so that I'll be ready when a network tech position opens up (I'm working desktop for now).

rsutton

I do IT work for different companies in my area so there is a wide variety of equipment I work with. Since most of my clients are small business, very few have Cisco equipment. I probably have to support less than 10 Cisco devices.

My last company (100 employees) was 90% Cisco as they had a healthy budget for networking equipment. Before that I worked for a company that got bought out by a giant company who would only allow us to use Cisco equipment (darn) so we had to replace our entire network infrastructure with Cisco gear - very cool.

Netwurk

We were about 90% Cisco, then we were bought out by another company (I luckily survived the massive layoffs, but that's another story). Anyhow, the new company is even more into Cisco. The remaining Nortel gear is being replaced by Cisco and our VPN software was replaced by the Cisco version.

cablegod

Absolutely ZERO. I run an entirely Juniper-powered network.

mshadow

We have Alcatel, Cisco, Juniper....we love all vendors lol....

Sett

cablegod wrote: »

Absolutely ZERO. I run an entirely Juniper-powered network.

Niiice !
I am jealous.