[c-nsp] Cisco Gigabit Ethernet Switch Module (CGESM) for theHPBladeSystem

Jason Lavoie jason at oasys.net
Tue Oct 4 10:35:22 EDT 2005


On 10/04, Olav Langeland wrote:
> I agree 100% regarding the comments about CGESM. If price is acceptable
> they are overall a better choice than GBE/GBE2, and especially good if
> you are using them in a Cisco environment. They are basically Cisco
> Catalyst switches, just funny looking and inside a HP Blade enclosure :)

I'll third that recommendation.  The cisco switches weren't yet
available when we bought our original chassis.  We ran into many
limitations (mostly STP-related) of the GBE2 switches, and traded them
after a year to get the features we needed.

-j

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Jason Lavoie
Ratvarre sbe uver
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