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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Any 1U - 2U Ethernet switches that can handle 4K VLANs?
On Sun, 25 Jan 2004, Alexei Roudnev wrote: > Of course, if they want L3 routing on every box (I do not like such idea, > but it's possible), then 3550 (or what do they have now?) is the best > choice. Definately not. The 3550 is an overpriced outdated product with moderate performance with way too small table sizes. For instance: The Summit48si handles 128k MAC addresses. The 3550 handles something like 6-15k. The Summit48si can do buffering when doing QoS/shaping, the 3550 does only policing. If you want to deliver a 2meg service over ethernet to a customer, this is a big issue. There is only one product in the 3550 line that is pricewise worth getting is the 3550-12G if you need to do L2 gig aggregation to 1gig uplink and you do not have many VLANs. There are three issues I see where the 3550 actually has a selling point: VRFs (even though they are too few) Q-in-Q (limited by the small mac table size) CEF (if you have very small routing table size and no broadcasts) -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: [email protected]
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