LinkRunner Scalability

ManuelGuerrero - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Support Specialist III at Citrus College

We have three of us who are using it. I do the networking in our organization, and the other two people are level one engineers that might need help with networking or diagnosing problems.

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BL
Network analyst at a university with 10,001+ employees

It is very good for everything we use it for. It has been able to do what we need and more. We've had no issues with scalability. We've never needed more out of a device.

We only have two 10Gig ones. Anyone who works on the networking team uses it at one point or another. We use it for everything. We mostly reserve the 10Gig one for dealing with any 10Gig link issues because it is more helpful, but for any ticket, problem, or anything to do with making sure we're looking at the right switch, we just plug it in to get the name or the IP address of the switch. We use it for everything we do.

We don't have any plans to increase the usage of the 10Gig ones. They are quite expensive, and we have only two of them. Down the road, when we move over to more 10Gig infrastructure, we might get more, but right now, the two 10Gig ones are fine.

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BAI QING - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Director at SystemEngineer360 Pte. Ltd.

It is able to meet our needs. It is being used extensively in our organization.

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Jesse_B - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager of networks and infrastructure at a government with 5,001-10,000 employees

I work in the public sector. I work in a company with about 1,000 employees to 1,500 employees. I have about seven people using this solution, and they are technicians because they are now able to use this. It's so simple to use. I also have network specialists. I have a senior network specialist, and I have a network engineer.

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SK
Systems Engineer at a consultancy with 501-1,000 employees

Scalability isn’t really applicable to a handheld device, but the Link-Live feature, which can aggregate all of your personal tools or all of your department's tools or all the company's tools, is reasonably scalable. There are lots of ways to organize tools and results and folders. We don't really do a lot of that. We just have a handful of tools that all report to one account, and that works well enough for our purposes.

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Bruce Hall - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at a university with 501-1,000 employees

We got it for 10-Gb links and below. There will certainly be a point where we want to do 40-Gb links, but I realize that that's a big jump from where this device is. And it has already made a big jump, going from 1-Gb links to 10. We're satisfied with that for now.

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DT
Senior Information Security Analyst at Peterbilt Motors Co., PACCAR

Being able to use this as a reflector with OneTouch is very handy.

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RV
Network Engineer at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees

If we want to go further, it's going to be a bit more expensive. Cost is the factor when it comes to adding to our use. For us, it's not that scalable as a result, but it's a good tool for us to have even just one of. I would like to have more of them. Some of our new products will be moving into a space where we need to start using more network-capable devices such as the LinkRunner.

At the moment there are five of us using it in the roles of desktop support, systems engineer, me as network engineer, another guy who looks after the Cloud Services, and my manager.

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Robin Puliparambil - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Engineer at MATRIXCNI

The scalability is questionable, but I'm open to being corrected on that. Right now, we're starting to see 25 Gig and 50 Gig throughputs, and even 100 or 400 Gig throughputs. It would be nice to see testing tools that can do 400 Gigs. 400 Gigs might be pushing it, but I would like to see at least 100 Gigs because that's slowly becoming the norm.

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NV
Network Analyst/Engineer at a media company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is limited because of the battery life. And in fact, at Networkshop in 2017, I spoke to a LinkRunner member of staff and I explained the issue with the battery. They said that I needed to buy a better LinkRunner, a more advanced model, which I thought was a bit strange because even after having it for a few weeks, the battery would just die on you.

I don't use it extensively. There are a lot of features on it that I don't use, like the web browser. I usually just use the port testing, the AutoTest, and the dart with the end-to-end cable testing. I'm satisfied with the way things are.

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JT
Network & Infrastructure Analyst with 201-500 employees

I appreciate that it has an SFP. The closest thing to scalability is that it does normal copper RJ45, but it also takes an SFP to do a 10G connection. One reason we chose this model is that it has the SFP that can do 10G.

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it_user514299 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at a educational organization

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

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NA
Network Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

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