[c-nsp] ME Series for a LAN/Server Farm

[Edward Salonia]

One thing to watch for is that there is no local switching among UNI ports.
You could either set your port type to NNI or you could set the vlan as a
community vlan to enable local switching. What platforms were you looking
at? ME3400, 3750ME? You should take note that the ME3400
series doesn't offer stacking and the 3750ME, while it has stacking ports on
the chassis, they are non functional, so you cant stack them either.

You should probably look into the 3750X series switches for stacking and
redundant PSU's. Though if you NEED fiber access ports, you will have to
look at the 3750G-12S as unfortunately, there is no SFP based 3750 platform
newer than that. That said, If you need the SFP's and redundant power, you
may be better off going to a chassis switch. You could also look at the
Nexus if this is for a DC, but I don't have any experience with them, so I
will leave those comments/suggestions, to others.

- Ed


On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 2:44 PM, Keegan Holley <keegan.holley at sungard.com>wrote:

> I know from previous conversations that the architecture as well as some of
> the defaults for the ME series are different than the traditional switching
> platforms.  I was curious if there were any reasons why I shouldn't use
> them
> in a "vanilla" switching environment such as a LAN or a server farm.  I
> need
> to do fiber aggregation and I haven't been able to find any cisco platform
> that will allow me to create an all 1G fiber stack with dual power.  I was
> curious if anyone had experience using these as just normal switching
> platforms.
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