AddOn Computer Peripherals - Anybody use them?

[Mike Bailey]

At my place of employment we picked up a rather large number of optics (something like 30 or 40 transceivers) that are Cisco or Brocade compatible, straight from this company. We're only using a very small portion of them (3 of them, to be exact) but they seem to work.

Anyone else have any experience with them? I took a look at their website and they seem to be one of the legitimate companies that tries to make compatible hardware for vendors like Cisco and Juniper. I don't really have much experience beyond the three that I happen to be using in a Brocade CER 2024.

 

[T_Minus]

URL ?

 

[Dajinn]

AddOn - Home

 

[T_Minus]

Ooooh "Addon" is their name, I read the thread and was like... what company?

 

[Mike Bailey]

Ooooh "Addon" is their name, I read the thread and was like... what company?

Yeah.. You can argue that it's both a great name and a terrible name at the same time.

 

[RTM]

Looks to me like another chinese company with questionably ethics.

An example: They make various NICs and call them "SOMEVENDOR SOMEMODEL comparable", like this one: AddOn - T520-CR-AO, that is supposed to be equivalent to a Chelsio T520-CR but uses a different chip.

 

[Mike Bailey]

Nope, no Chinese company here. Just looked them up and they are a US based business.

At least they are up front and say that it's "Intel PRO/1000 PT compatible" rather than outright lying and saying "Intel PRO/1000 PT".

I'm inclined to say they're probably one of the legitimate manufacturers for compatible hardware. I was reading some networking guy's blog who mentioned that they roughly fall into two groups: Compatible hardware that doesn't try to claim it's the real thing, or counterfeited that claims it is the real thing.

Of course, I value anyone else's opinion who has directly worked with their hardware and would love to hear about it.

 

[markarr]

I have used their RAM in many servers. I had one stick go bad on me and the over-nighted a new one with no questions asked. The warranty dept is located here in America or they train their cs staff really really well.