[nsp] Catalyst 4506 comparison with 6506

[Charlie Winckless]

The 4506 will do L3, with the S3 -- and with the
4500 series, they now have 1:1 redundancy on
the power supplies in most situations (in heavy
IP telephony use, you may need more than the
2800W power supply.

I'd also look at the 4507R; I've been favourably
impressed with them, since they can do redundany
SUps.

I, personally, despise L3 on anything less than
an S3, and see no reason to get a 4006 over a 
4506 at this stage either.

The big caveat here is that the 'feature' licence
to do any reasonable routing protocol is another
$10k (since it's just to match Extreme, etc, in
this market space), and I don't /think/ they do
BGP

-- Charlie

-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Stiles
To: Z; cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net
Sent: 11/4/2002 11:58 PM
Subject: Re: [nsp] Catalyst 4506 comparison with 6506

We're using them as strictly Layer 2 devices for user distribution
(10/100) 
and some limited server distribution with the gigE 10/100/1000 
cards.  They've been great for these roles.  The only negative we ran 
across is no jumbo frame support, at least until sometime in 2003 w/ new

sup engines, according to Cisco.  Also, they come with 2 power supplies
but 
need a third for failover.

Tim



At 12:20 AM 11/5/2002 -0800, Z wrote:

>Hi again,
>
>    Does anyone have any practical experience with the Catalyst
>4506 switch?   I've had good experiences with the 6506, but
>I'm looking for an option 'B' that is lower-cost and I'm wondering
>what the practical trade-offs are.   I know that throughput and port
>density are significantly less in the 45xx series as well as the
>supervisor engine features ( no MSFC and PFC or dFC-enabled hardware
>AFAIK ).   Can you even do the layer-3 stuff on the 4506, or HSRP,
>EIGRP, OSPF, etc?
>
>    Thanks in advance.
>
>.z
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