I would not recommend it to smaller businesses because they could not afford it.

I wouldn't recommend it to anyone unless they come up with a small business model for it, which would be interesting to me. Instead of competing at the enterprise level with that product, they should probably scale it. With all of the ports, they should develop a good mid-level business to truly scale it and gain adoption before attempting to go after the enterprise.

It's too difficult to break into the enterprise, which is already heavily invested in those other ones. I mean, Arista did it, but they've recently gained traction. Fortinet is gaining traction, but, as previously stated, it began by establishing credibility in the commercial, mid-market, and enterprise markets. Whereas Dell-Force10 Campus LAN Switches have never attempted anything other than enterprise.

I would rate Dell-Force10 Campus LAN Switches a five out of ten.

I have experience with LAN switches, but my experience has more to do with video-based data. There are fewer restrictions. There is a question of bandwidth when it comes to designing a solution with switches that deal with storage device communication and editing systems.

I have more to do with the broadcast IT solutions. My decisions are based on certified switches forwarded by OEMs. Our customers are not ready to accept anything that is not certified by OEM.  

As system integrators, we notify OEM of what solution we need to design and the number of machines or forwarding machines. We then quantify the things we want them to do. The OEM will confirm that we want to use this switch and whether it is certified or not.

Our customers are not ready to use Hybrid solutions. We mostly use on-premises solutions because bandwidth is an issue in India.

Customers don't have much to do with the configurations of the switch. The OEMs do the first level and advise the customers not to modify it. They are only allowed a few features or allowed to add some boards. They are not allowed to change the entire way the system functions because is a LAN scenario.

The system has to be running all of the time.

If you are using a corporate-type solution connected with routing and internet savvy applications, or a hybrid application, then I would not recommend using Dell. If you are using an on-premises application that is bandwidth-heavy and straightforward to setup then definitely Dell is a solution that can be used.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.