[c-nsp] what is it with 3550s?

[Eric Van Tol]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-nsp-
> bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Jeff Bacon
> Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 12:03 PM
> To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: [c-nsp] what is it with 3550s?
> 
> They seem to be an incredibly popular device, especially for telcos as
> CPE devices. Why? (I have no use for them, really, and they appear to be
> EOL, I'm just really curious.)
> 

They can do full layer 3 routing, have a diverse selection of model numbers, do decent QoS, and are cheap, cheap, cheap.

-evt