Hi,
On our network, we run a fair amount of HP 2626 ProCurve switches but are looking for some cheaper solutions to re-kit out a cabinet as these weigh in at around £250 each so it would cost £750 for this new cabinet on switches alone. It is important that they are managed so I've been looking at the Netgear FSM726 as it is layer 2 managed and has 2 gigabit uplink ports just like the 2626's however the netgear's cost only half that of the 2626.
Just looking for some opinions basically on how they compare- obviously they are not going to be quite as good as the 2626 because of the price difference but are we going to have problems with performance and stability because so far, not one of our 2626's have failed. To be honest though, anything is better than these crappy surecom things we have at the minute and one of them has just died
Anyway, any opinions will be much appreciated

Thanks
Ben
On our network, we run a fair amount of HP 2626 ProCurve switches but are looking for some cheaper solutions to re-kit out a cabinet as these weigh in at around £250 each so it would cost £750 for this new cabinet on switches alone. It is important that they are managed so I've been looking at the Netgear FSM726 as it is layer 2 managed and has 2 gigabit uplink ports just like the 2626's however the netgear's cost only half that of the 2626.
Just looking for some opinions basically on how they compare- obviously they are not going to be quite as good as the 2626 because of the price difference but are we going to have problems with performance and stability because so far, not one of our 2626's have failed. To be honest though, anything is better than these crappy surecom things we have at the minute and one of them has just died

Anyway, any opinions will be much appreciated


Thanks
Ben