Re: Slightly OT - surplus networking kit at bargain prices

[Martin Howell <grizelli@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Richard,

Thanks, dependign on the size of your company, this may be rather a lot
of kit, though my client will almost certainly be happy to sell it off 
in pieces.  A provisional list of equipment is attached, we are in the
decommissioning process at the moment so the quantities may change
slightly.

The equipment is around 110 - 120 Nortel Centillion 5000BH chassis. 
This is a large 14 slot rackmount chassis with hot swappable cards. 
The 
boxes run ATM between them and have sophisticated routing/re-routing 
capabilities able to redirect traffic in the event of line or equipment
failure. They would typically have a number of cards with RJ45 
connectors for users and servers, with fibre cards for uplinks to other
boxes. They can also handle some of the strange protocols like OSI, 
DECNet, and others.

All of the equipment is here in the UK, it is in perfect working order 
(still running a major corporate network on it  - around 15000 users
plus all corporate and customer systems - pending the migration to new 
Cisco kit), and will be removed and packed by our engineers. Most of the
chassis have a full set of redundant power supplies, the rest have 2 
PSUs, and most are arranged as two switches in one chassis, with at 
least two uplink cards and an average of around 9 10Mb or 100Mb line 
cards per box.  There is also a quantity of smaller kit, Baystack 
450T-24 switches mostly, as well as some odds and ends of small routers
etc.

Hope this helps, let me know if you need more info. If you need a good 
Project Manager (I am one of those) or an excellent cabling company 
(Yes, we have one of those too) for your next phase of expansion, let me
know :-)

Regards
Martin


Richard Challis wrote:
> Hi Martin,
> 
> I'm currently trying to bring the company I work for screaming into
the 18th
> century.
> 
> Have just managed to get them to agree to flood wire a new office.
etc.
> 
> Would be very interested in your list.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Martin Howell" <grizelli@xxxxxxx>
> To: "ukha" <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 6:02 PM
> Subject: [ukha_d] Slightly OT - surplus networking kit at bargain
prices
> 
> 
> 
>>An opportunity for all you who are really serious about their
home
>>network  :-).  I am involved with a project to migrate a
corporate
>>network to a new hardware platform and dispose of the old. 
The kit may
>>be a bit large for most of you - go to www.nortel.com and look
up
>>Centillion 5000 series - but if any of you need serious
networking
>>equipment for your employers, contact me privately and I'll send
you a
>>list.  There are around 120 rack mounted 14 slot chassis more
or less
>>full of 24 port line cards and fibre uplinks, plus some other
stuff.
>>
>>Martin
>>
>>
>>
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