[AusNOG] Cisco Switch recommendations for a small ISP

[James Mcintosh]

Hi All,

Thanks a heap for all your replies, it has been very helpful indeed. Basically I'm down either 3560-X or 4948. Both price and specs seem to be quite similar.

Can anyone comment on their experience with either of these or differences they've found?


-James


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 From: Brad McGinn <bmcginn at thiess.com.au>
To: James Mcintosh <james.mcintosh at rocketmail.com>; "ausnog at lists.ausnog.net" <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net> 
Sent: Wednesday, 28 March 2012 11:15 AM
Subject: RE: [AusNOG] Cisco Switch recommendations for a small ISP
 
Hi there,

The 4948 series is built for large throughput and the backplane isn't oversubscribed so it is real line rate.  From what I recall, they used to be the top of rack switch of choice before the nexus gear came to be.  It will well be worth a deeper look in my opinion.

Brad

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From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of James Mcintosh
Sent: Tuesday, 27 March 2012 11:09 AM
To: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: [AusNOG] Cisco Switch recommendations for a small ISP

Hi Noggers,

Just looking for some switch recommendations for a small ISP. Mining through the info at cisco.com gives me a lot of marketing fluff but not much in the way of real info that I need. What I'm after is as follows:

- Must be Cisco gear (I know there are other options out there but we are a Cisco shop)

- Layer 2 Ethernet with a minimum of 48 ports gigabit ports. Layer 3 functionality within the switch is not a requirement.

- Dual redundant power

- Q-in-Q 802.1Q tunnelling

I've looked the 3750's but they aren't gigabit. Also the 2960G-48-TC-L but it doesn't appear to have Q-in-Q 802.1Q tunnelling

Any ideas?


-James
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