[AusNOG] Switching Recommendations

Greg M gregm at servu.net.au
Sun Jul 14 20:11:23 EST 2013


Just be aware that if you are pushing the 3560X hard in a server environment
you will experience packet drops due to shitty buffers on the 2960S/3560X
and 3750X series. We ended up choosing the 4948E because of this...

Greg

-----Original Message-----
From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Peter
Tonoli
Sent: Sunday, 14 July 2013 6:05 PM
To: Joseph Goldman
Cc: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Switching Recommendations

Hiya,

> Looking for a recommendation on a good top of rack switch with most 
> importantly dual redundant power supplies, and 24 Gigabit Ethernet 
> ports. If there are ones in a good price range that also have 10Gbit 
> capability, that is a bonus but not a must.
> 
> Would prefer 1RU, 2RU at most. Not many ports needed so don't 
> want/need a big switching chassis.
> 
> Cisco is our preferred vendor, but if you can suggest a good switch in 
> another brand with compelling enough reason then it will be considered 
> :).

Cisco's 3560, model WS-C3560X-24T-L with:
C3KX-NM-10G Two 10GbE SFP+ ports network module with four physical ports
with two SFP+ and two regular SFP ports or C3KX-NM-10GT Two 10GB-T ports
network module, & C3KX-PWR-350WAC as a secondary power supply will do the
trick :-)

Cheers,
Peter.

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Peter Tonoli < peter at medstv.unimelb.edu.au > +61-3-9288-2399 IT Manager The
University of Melbourne - Eastern Hill Academic Centre, St. Vincent's
Institute and O'Brien Institute
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