On 4/12/02 10:07 AM, "Barry Bruins" <bbruins@cisco.com> wrote:
> At 01:45 AM 4/11/2002 -0400, Brian Wallingford wrote:
>> On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Arie J. Gerszt wrote:
>>
>> :Hi List
>> :
>> :I read that the WS-C2924-XL-EN are end of life. By what are
>> :they replaced and why is this product "all ready" EOL?
>>
>> For the "recommended" replacements, simply go to Cisco's site - not
>> exactly brain surgery :)
>>
>> As to why they're EOL'ing (they're not - they're simply stopping sales of
>> new units) such great, well-proven products, I'd suspect it's simply an
>> effort to boost price points by hyping GE technology & aiming such toward
>> those who don't yet need it.
>>
>> If this results in a glut of 2912/2924's and 3512/3524/3548's, I would
>> strongly recommend grabbing them, as they're great switches, and both
>> series handle standards-based .1q vlans extremely well.
>>
>> These boxes won't be EOL'd until 2005. There's a *big* difference
>> between end-of-sales and end-of-life.
>
> Thanks for the nice comments on the product Brian.
>
> I have it on pretty good authority that the replacement (3550-24) lists at the
> same price as 3524 and yet is L3-capable (s/w upgrade) and comes with L3/4
> filtering, ACL etc.
>
> Barry
>
>
>> Cheers,
>> Brian
>
>
Plus, from reading the documemtation, they make no mention of the 64 vlan
limitation on dynamic vlans that the older switches suffered from.
joe
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