Talk:List of networking hardware vendors

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Created[edit]

Page created as I feel that we have articles on computer equipment vendors, but no list to pull them all together under one banner. I am looking for refernce material on Market Share from the public pages of Dell'oro and also Gartner, and will add this soon. --Jezarnold (talk) 17:20, 7 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

does anyone know where we can get public access to port counts and revenue from Gartner / Dell'oro? Jez t e C 17:37, 11 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No Amped Wireless?[edit]

Was trying to think of Amped Wireless, ended up at this page, recalled it from memory and noticed it was missing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by FordGT90Concept (talk • contribs) 01:31, 6 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The Amped Wireless article has been deleted a few times. ~Kvng (talk) 03:04, 19 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Comprehensive list[edit]

I don't beleive it is realistic to claim this is an unabridged list. I'm not sure that should actually be the goal for this thing. I propose to remove this statement and delete some of the more obscure/spammy entries listed. ~Kvng (talk) 13:54, 23 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Spammy entries[edit]

I created an article for Meal kit and put in some guidelines to keep it from getting too spammy. In the body, I added this:

On the talk page, I added this:

== Unofficial guidelines for inclusion on the list of companies in this article ==

There are over 150 meal kit companies.  This list is intended to be only the most notable ones.  Please do not add any external links to meal kit web sites, per WP:PROMO.  If the company has a Wikipedia article, please link to that.  If the company has media coverage in a reliable source but doesn't have an article yet, please cite the best source.  If you plan to write an article for any of the unlinked companies, feel free to wiki-link but it will be red linked until the article is complete. Any entry added without media coverage (indicating lack of notability) will be removed. Please feel free to discuss these unofficial guidelines on the talk page. TimTempleton ^(talk) ^(cont) 18:45, 27 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

If this works here as well, we can implement and start culling this list. TimTempleton ^(talk) ^(cont) 00:37, 19 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

That sounds like a good idea. We do need to draw a line somewhere, and this sounds like a good spot to start. — AfroThundr ^{(u · t · c)} 14:41, 19 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Completely agree. I have cleaned up all unsourced/non-notable entries (Wikipedia is not a product or vendor directory), and also added a - somewhat simplified - edit notice to the article page. If the editnotice needs tweaking (of course consensus can change), please feel free to ping me or post an edit request for the editnotice template. GermanJoe (talk) 15:13, 19 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Non-PRC Chips[edit]

Is it appropriate to list the country of origin for networking products so as to designate products which might be using high security-risk chips from mainland China? - --KitchM (talk) 18:36, 19 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Table layout[edit]

Would it make sense to use a wikitable for this page? currently there are multiple lists that are getting quite lengthy and bare a lot of recurring entries. Also the initial intent of this page (see first message of this talk page) was to list more information of the companies. Also the previous post requested for adding country of origin. By using a table there is a better overview of what a specific vendor provides and people can sort the list to get vendors providing a specific type of equipment. In my opinion this seems like a better way to structure this page going forward. I added a simple example.

Any thoughts, pro or contra?

Vendor	Routers	Switches	APs	Country	Notes
Foo	x	x	x	US
Bar	x	x		CN
Baz*		x	x	FR	Acquired by Foo

Robinjanssens (talk) 17:03, 5 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]