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Season's greetings!<br>
<br>
I'd appreciate the collective wisdom of AusNOG for this one.<br>
<br>
We have a need to deploy gigabit access switchports facing
residential and business customers.<br>
<br>
Traditional solutions (e.g. Cisco gigabit switches) tend to look
discouraging next to their 100mbps cousins on a cost/benefit
analysis.<br>
<br>
We have some key (yet fairly generic) requirements to distinguish
these layer2 switches from the cheapest end of the market -<br>
<ul>
<li>long service life / high MTBF<br>
</li>
<li>key port features include</li>
<ul>
<li>switchport protected / client ports prevented from switching
packets to each other</li>
<li>storm control<br>
</li>
</ul>
<li>some durability against environmentals - not exactly
clean-room</li>
<li>mature snmp / CLI</li>
<li>PVST<br>
</li>
<li>sufficiently future-proof feature set</li>
<li>API access desirable</li>
<li>.. and looking to optimize cost per port, in bulk, given the
requirements above<br>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Could anyone provide, on or off-list, anecdotal suggestions or
links to trusted case studies to help provide basis for selection
of an access switch vendor?<br>
</p>
<p>Regards, Tim<br>
<br>
</p>
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Timothy Sheahan
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