Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Downsides to used Procurve gear? What am I missing.
In my not-that-recent career managing datacenters I got lots of good
use out of HP Procurve managed switches. My limited experience with
the mass market stuff was less than flawless. That was then, this is
now.

I'm doing some wiring for non-profit organizations. 12 and 24 port
switches are what I need and see that on ebay HP Procurve 10/100
switches (lifetime warranty) sell for half or less what a mass market
brand sell for new.

What am I missing? Maybe standard VLAN capability (which ..
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