[c-nsp] 3750X?

[John Exum]

Under the very clear heading of personal opinion, I have always tried to buy
the best equipment I could.  I tend to have to use equipment longer than I
would normally like.  I know if I were ordering equipment for a new building
on campus today, I would would want the PoE+ and the 10G option for the
future needs I will expect the equipment to cover for the next five or six
years.  Also the shared power is a cool sounding idea.  The only problem I
ever had out of our 3750 stacks were power issues.

As far as questions to ask.  I would want my vendor to tell me when I could
expect to see the equipment.  In my environment here I only order when I
need something.  At best I can keep one or two switches on the shelf for
emergencies.  With Cisco currently, I am having to wait way longer than I
can (politically speaking) for the equipment.  I have even had it suggested
from my administration that other companies networking gear may not be as
good as Cisco's; but, it can be ordered and arrive at a reasonable time.  I
have been bit several times ordering a new product to be hit with the
dreaded 'new product hold'.  I am a little cynical about it.......

John L. Exum
Network Manager
Harding University


On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Jeffrey Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us> wrote:

> Our vendor wants to do a dog & pony show on the new 3750X (and 3560X
> and 2960S) switches that Cisco has just released.
>
> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10745/index.html
>
> We're about to plonk down a big chunk of money to buy 3750G switches
> to replace a lot of our older network gear.
>
> We don't have 10G in the core (yet) so 10G uplinks aren't a big seller
> for me.  The PoE+ would be nice to power the Cisco 802.11n gear that
> requires more than 15 watts to energize both radios (which I don't
> have anyway), but I don't know of any other gear yet that would
> require the higher power...
>
> So, before the meeting, does anyone else have opinions or questions
> that I should be asking?
>
> --
> Jeff Ollie
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