[c-nsp] 3550-48 -> 3560-48TS-E migration?

[Arie Vayner (avayner)]

Jon,

You might want to take a look at Catalyst 4948, which might present a
better feature parity/richness and might be a better match for your
requirements.
The normal 4948 would do IPv6 in software, so it really depends on how
wide you expect your deployment to be, but you can take a look at the
newer 4948M 

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/switches/ps5718/ps6021/produc
t_data_sheet0900aecd8017a72e.html
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6021/products_data_sheets_list.htm
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Arie 

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[mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Jon Lewis
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 17:24 PM
To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
Subject: [c-nsp] 3550-48 -> 3560-48TS-E migration?

Having just gone past the end of software maintenance date for the 3550,
and with the need to start at least looking at supporting IPv6 on our
customer aggregation switches in the not so distant future, I suppose
it's time to seriously consider the 3560-48TS as a replacement / upgrade
path for our 3550-48's.

With the 3550-48's, we've been getting away with configuring generally
all or nearly all the FE interfaces as routed ports using the default
SDM template, and not run into any problems, even though this template
is allegedly optimized for 8 routed interfaces.  Can the 3560-48TS be
used similarly without getting into software forwarding?

I'd love to hear from someone using the 3560-48TS in a mixed v4/v6
environment with 48 routed ports, since cisco's docs that I've found so
far don't seem to suggest how likely this is to work.

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