Following a wealth of work on the new Dell 10/40G optical fibre switches, we’ve decided to stop work on them and instead replace our existing HPE 1/10G copper/fibre switches with HPE 10/40G optical fibre switches.

We made the move to go more “all of Dell”, and it was a good test in showing us to not use Dell for networking! The over-engineered nightmare that is their Network Operating System is quite an abomination of a NOS. :-)

HPE hardware is en route and we’ll return over the coming 2 weeks to implement the switching upgrade.