[c-nsp] Recommendations for 10GBase-Capable switch

[Robert Hayden]

The 3750 (non-Metro) is pretty darn cost effective (if you get 
aggressive discounting), particularily if you also stack in other 
switches to meet the needs in that location.  Our primary use for them 
is we can standardize on one platform (IOS) and grow it at the same time 
to meet the needs of each closet or building depending on their local needs.

We use 3750s almost exclusively now to aggregate closets (10/100 and 
10/100 PoE) to 3750s in the basement (-12s models) and then uplink to 
core 6513s and do the VLAN routing there.  In this space, with the 3750s 
doing no layer 3, they are quite nice.

With new products coming on the market from other manufacturers that are 
much-more aggressively priced, with similiar features and expandibility, 
coupled with Cisco's limited vision on the product line (no 10GE w/ SFPs 
for example, and no VPLS capability in the stack) we may need to start 
looking at other options in the next year, however.

Robert Hayden
University of Wisconsin

lists at hojmark.org wrote:
>>Why would I want a single switch that could aggregate N 
>>number of SFPs to a single 10GE uplink?
> 
> 
> Oh, but I understand why one would want a switch like that...
> 
> What I don't understand is why one would want that switch to
> be a 4948 or a 3750 (non-Metro), which were built for something
> else.
> 
> -A
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