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

[Keegan Holley]

I'm looking at the new 3600X series it was just released in Sept.  I noticed
the no local switching for UNI ports.  Is there a way to disable the UNI/NNI
relationship completely or enable local switching for UNI ports?


On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Edward Salonia <ed at edgeoc.net> wrote:

> 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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