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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Hi Karl,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">We’re Dell Certified Partners and I can tell you categorically it’s designed/manufactured by Dell, not an OEM.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Reviews and feedback have been extremely positive, probably the main thing it doesn’t have is stacking, but if that’s not a requirement, it’s a great switch. We’ve been quoting
them a lot for use with the Dell Equallogic iSCSI Storage Arrays (also excellent).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Dell do also OEM Brocade (B Series PowerConnect) and Juniper (J Series PowerConnect) but the 62xx and 8024(F) are all theirs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Jacob<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">PS Been lurking for a while, first post to the list - so hi everybody
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Karl Kloppenborg<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, October 21, 2010 1:47 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <ausnog@ausnog.net> List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [AusNOG] Dell 10Gb 1U High Density Switch<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Does anyone know if this switch is manufactured by Dell? and if not who is the real manufacture?<o:p></o:p></p>
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Karl Kloppenborg</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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