[c-nsp] 3750x Alternatives

[Andrew Miehs]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Jeff Kell <jeff-kell at utc.edu> wrote:

> 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).
>

Thats what I thought too - but don't know how big a deployment is planned,
and you loose a couple of ports for VSS and a couple of ports for your
uplink.



> 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").
>

Not a big fan of the redundant supervisors (old habit from the 7500s) - and
spanning tree would probably be adequate based on what I have understood.

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.
>

The OP seemed to be having an issue with bursty traffic, which is why I
would push him away from the 37xx product line.

Andrew