[c-nsp] Stacking 3750X vs diverse 4948E

[Mark Berly]

If you are looking at various vendors there are others in the space
that offer high density 10GbE solutions at very competitive price
points (e.g. Arista) you should investigate.

-mark

On May 23, 2012, at 1:32 AM, Mark Tinka <mark.tinka at seacom.mu> wrote:

> On Tuesday, May 22, 2012 11:38:56 PM Mick O'Rourke wrote:
>
>> The X = a Sup7 in a box.
>> 55k MAC. 128k ACL.
>> 60 odd etherchannels and vrfs. Same same.
>>
>> There was a nice thread with detail from the Cisco
>> product manager here on it a while back.
>
> And the 1U form-factor is great. Like Gert, we ignored the
> typical 4500's that were chassis-based, for the very same
> reasons.
>
> The expandable modules is a little too sexy for us, but we
> can live with it.
>
> FCS is going to be a while, hence the strange pricing Ryan
> may be seeing; but once it gets going, this should be less
> of an issue.
>
> Juniper's EX4500, on the other hand, is a 2U system, but
> that's fine too. It's still small enough - with expandable
> uplink 10Gbps uplink modules.
>
> Mark.
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