QUESTnet 2007

[gdt]

Force10 are finally in Australia. Force10 and Foundry now present a real alternative to the Cisco 6500-series for a core switch/router. Juniper's MX960 would also be an interesting core router.

Netgear sharing a booth, D-link nowhere to be seen, Dell here but wth no networking kit. Managed workgroup switches are a commodity, a network owner should buy the cheapest ones they can that have a reasonable element manager. Netgear seemed to get this, even though they are new to the enterprise market. Dell should have got this, but don't seem to, which sums up a lot of that company's problems at the moment. D-Link weren't there.

Lots of firewalls, but many of them PC-based, which isn't really suitable for more than 100Mbps of traffic.

Interesting freebies. A USB/DECT phone, works with Asterisk with some fiddling. A SIM reader. A laser pointer (thank you, NetApp).

Caught up with Jerry from DRAGON. Looks like G-MPLS is finally ready to roll.