Hpe

We have recently begun a project to replace all of our core switches at our various remote locations. We have around 40 locations and 2 core switches for each location so, whilst not the largest undertaking, it’s an operationally significant project for a team of 1… We’ve used HP switches for a long time (we’re even still using some of the 3COM switches…) and we have a supplier that gets a good discount on these so I went shopping. Now that HPE have purchased Aruba, there’s some nicer models that we can get our hands on. We don’t have any stupidly high bandwidth requirements yet either so we’re not looking in the upper ranges, we usually stick to the SMB style switches (plus I have a hard time justifying the price increase with our use cases!). ...