[c-nsp] Cisco RPS for 3550 switch

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Terje Bless wrote:

> On the RPS-300, we didn't do the checking we should have before buying
> and ended up with what for us were essentially 30 boat anchors. My
> conclusion in the end was that it's much better to keep (in our case)
> a bunch of spare 3524s (another "brilliant" purchase, *sigh*) and
> replace the entire unit in case of PSU (or other) failure. The RPS-300
> and its ilk simply makes zero sense to me (even if it's now dirt
> cheap).

Oh, we have plenty of spare 3550's and would swap the entire switch in case of a 
internal PSU failure, it is just a matter of wanting to control downtime vs. 
having an outage in the middle of the night.  The RPS-300 seems to provide at 
least that much benefit.

--Mike