[c-nsp] 3750x Alternatives

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Thanks Andrew - The Nexus do look nice...The 5010/5020 are EOL'd correct?(But still able to get smartnet on them?)....Is there a significant price point difference between these and the 5548(P?)   

If the Nexus are heinously expensive, I might look at the 4500's as you suggest.....or perhaps the 4900's?(I do require 6+ SFP for fibre connections though)

Cheers.

Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 18:57:14 +1100
Subject: Re: [c-nsp] 3750x Alternatives
From: andrew at 2sheds.de
To: cisconsp_list at hotmail.com
CC: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 5:40 PM, CiscoNSP_list CiscoNSP_list <cisconsp_list at hotmail.com> wrote:

We currently use 3750x stack to terminate pairs of 2960S(TOR's) - Our traffic is quite bursty, and we are getting hit with the small buffers (output drops)...any suggestions on alternative platforms? (We only do L2 on the current switches)


6503's w/ VSS?

4500x w/ VSS?

Nexus w/ Vpc?

If you only want to do layer 2, you could also look at a pair of Nexus 5Ks and run VPC - or look at other vendors.
Do you really need two chassis/ VSS? 4500s don't have VSS yet, so you could possibly get away with a 4500 - possible a second 4500 as a cold spare.

Andrew