[nsp] Catalyst 3550-12T

[Lars Erik Gullerud]

On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 14:35, James Galliford wrote:
> Understood.  I'm guessing that's why the 3550 is about 2½ times as much in cost.

I don't really understand how you arrive at the conclusion that the 3550
is 2.5 times the cost of the 3750. For the directly comparable
configurations (i.e. the ones with the same number of ports and the same
software (SMI/EMI)), the 3550 is in fact priced lower than the 3750,
e.g. these platforms:

3550-24-SMI = list price $2995
3750-24TS-S = list price $3995

3550-12G = list price $6995
3750-12G-E = liste price $7995

Of course, if you what you need is a load of 10/100/1000T ports and
don't need EMI software, then getting 3750G-24TS-S (or 3750G-24T-S) is
obviously going to come out cheaper per port than using a pair of
3550-12T's, since the 3550 series doesn't have a 24-port 10/100/1000
version with SMI software. But still not 2.5X...

Start looking at the 3750 Metro however, and you are REALLY looking at
some insane costs compared to 3550/3750, especially so if you actually
want to use the features that differentiate the Metro from the plain
3550/3750.

BTW, in addition to the lack of Q-in-Q in 3750's, they also lack
VRF-Lite (which 3550's have), unless Cisco put that in recently when I
wasn't watching. But that is of course also typically an ISP-feature.

/leg