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

[Phil Bedard]

3600X might be an option, otherwise there are other vendors with cheaper
L2-switch-only products with 24+ SFP ports on them.

The Nexus 5548 has 1G support coming sometime in the near future, so if
you are looking to buy further down the line it might be an option.   The
older 5010/5020 models have limited 1G support (only on first 16 ports if
I recall correctly)


Phil 

On 12/8/10 6:26 PM, "Keegan Holley" <keegan.holley at sungard.com> wrote:

>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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