[mythtv-users] myth on separate subnet

Ben Kamen bkamen at benjammin.net
Fri Jan 15 01:25:28 UTC 2010


On 1/14/2010 5:29 PM, Greg Oliver wrote:
>
> It was their first product released after their acquisition of Grand
> Junction..  First switches to actually switch at rated speed..  They
> were losing tremendous business to Foundry and Extreme at that time...
>   They had crap ethernet gear (5xxx/55xx) was their best, and they
> could not push packets on any port faster than 300Mb...
>
> That's why their initial product offerings came out with hard to
> configure interfaces (speed to market), and non-standard IOS
> commands..  After they polished it up, they came out with the 65xx
> series, and 35xx small biz switches..  All of which are still top
> shelf today..

Yea, that's why those ran "catalyst os" if I remember right. They were so behind in market share,
they just "bought into it".

We had some 3500's too. Those were decent too.

  -Ben


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