[c-nsp] 3750x Alternatives

[Jeff Kell]

If you seriously have 10G on the roadmap, 4500X looks sweet, you can get
it in a 16-port version, SFP / SFP+ you upgrade as you are ready.  A
pair of them in a VSS deployment is going to be pretty steep however,
especially if you need smart layer-3 (Enterprise).

Otherwise perhaps a 4507E+R with a pair of Sup7Es, you can pre-load
redundant power, Supervisors, and blades to fit the need now; if the VSS
pans out you just need another chassis (and whatever else you may want
"redundantly redundant").

Or go with 3750E/X if their mac address tables meet your needs.  You get
two 10G ports per switch, you can always uplink to a dumber/cheaper L2
10G switch.

Jeff

On 11/19/2012 8:00 PM, Andrew Miehs wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:34 AM, CiscoNSP_list CiscoNSP_list <
> cisconsp_list at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 2 x 4500-e with Sup7e +  WS-X4748-RJ45-E + WS-X4612-SFP-E ?
>> Or 2 x 4500x with similar ports as 4500-e
>> Or 2 x Nexus 5548
>>
>> Is there a big price difference between these?
>>
> Contact your Cisco reseller. He may be able to provide you with a global
> price list so that you can see the relative price of all the items. You
> will want some form of support on these boxes as well as you NEED to be
> able to download updates.
>
> Otherwise you will have me here all day working out Cisco prices :)
>
> Based on my gut feeling - I would think that the best solution for you
> would probably be a c4506 with a Sup7E. You could get your redundancy by
> using spanning tree rather than port channels until VSS becomes
> available. The 4500s are also quite a good layer 3 switch so you ever
> require layer 3 functionality. (Extra licenses however).
>
> NOTE: I can of course not guarantee that Cisco will bring out VSS for the
> 4500s or that it won't be an extra cost on the Sup7E - I can only state
> what I have read.
>