[c-nsp] looking for a switch recomendations

[Andre Gironda]

I might suggest the Cisco Catalyst 2948-G-GE-TX, which runs CatOS, if you
can find one.  It's got a lot of 10/100/1000 ports in 1U... something like
52 if you get 4 UTP SFP's.

If I were you I'd avoid the similarily-cheaply priced CE500 switch, which
does not have a CLI.  Not having a CLI can be really annoying, especially in
the long-term.  It took me about an hour to configure 48 ports on a CE500,
when `set port 1/1-48' or `interface range gi0/1 - 48' would have fully
configured another Cisco switch product in a few seconds.

The power redundancy requirement is strange... personally I'd rather have a
modular switch... otherwise power redundancy is kind of moot.  I'm a big fan
of the Catalyst 6500 line of products because they're solid performing
network warriors.. Sup2U is probably nice enough for your needs, but there
are 3 generations in the Sup3/Sup720 line... and I hear that the Sup 1440 is
in EFT's...

dre

On 11/30/05, Asbjorn Hojmark - Lists <Lists at hojmark.org> wrote:
>
> > I'm looking for a switch that can do this things:
> >
> > Supports at least 1000 VLANs
> > Can use 4000 VLAN ids
> > Supports VLAN translations on many ports
> > QinQ
> > QoS
> > Some gigabyte ports
> >
> > Preferred to be 1U, about 48 port, power redundancy
> > Optionally shaping and VTP
> >
> > This is all L2, no need for L3.
>
> I could be a Catalyst 4948, but it's somewhat pricey...
>
> -A
>
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