[c-nsp] Cisco 3750G vs. HP Procurve

[Kristian Larsson]

On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 02:29:55PM -0800, matthew zeier wrote:
> 
> It's been suggested that the Procurve may be a good, cheaper, 
> alternative to the 3750G however, I don't have any experience with HP 
> switches.l
> 
> The 3750Gs are acting as access switches and only doing L2 but I wanted 
> to take advantage of the stacking and cross-stack port-channeling.  Each 
> stack of two members will uplink to two 6509s on a 4x1Gbps port-channel 
> (two from each member then).
> 
> Anyone have any experience or comments?  Thanks.
The HP 3400 is a real nice switch.
At L2 I don't you find anything that can match
it's price/performance.
L3 is flow-based but with a 64k table it works
quite well, even in a SP environment (out at the
edge that is).
> 
> I's also being suggested that I look at Juniper...
Juniper don't do L2 switching. They sell routers.