[c-nsp] Multi-VRF on Cat3550 vs 3750

[Tantsura, Jeff]

Take a look at a pricing schema of 3750M, it has 3 different licences -> standard IP/Advanced IP/MPLS etc.
So with MPLS enabled licence price is an issue.
3750M definitely has its place in a network -  it has hierarchical QoS and could be great EoMPLS/VPLS entrée point.


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-----Original Message-----
From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of sthaug at nethelp.no
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 2:49 PM
To: will at harg.net
Cc: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Multi-VRF on Cat3550 vs 3750

> Been buying a mixture of Cat3550s and Cat3750s (each with EMI).
>
> I've just noticed Multi-VRFs aren't supported on the 3750 but are on
> the 3550. Is this a market share decision to get you to buy the 3750 Metro?

Seems likely.

> I'd buy 3550s but they don't currently support IP Source Guard which
> is another feature I'd like. But then that's not on the 3750 Metro
> either...

You should be aware that the 3750 Metro is more closely related to the 3550 than to the rest of the 3750 line.

We still buy 3550s - not enough interesting stuff on the 3750 Metro to make them worth buying, and some large disappointments (1024 simultaneous VLANs and 12000 MAC addresses is not nearly good enough). The MPLS stuff *might* have been interesting if it had had a decent price tag, but it doesn't. IMHO Cisco missed the boat with the 3750 Metro.

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