On Friday 29 January 2010 05:33:40 am Jason Gurtz wrote: > Unfortunately, I left out that that most of the gig > uplink connections are fiber so a 3560G doesn't have > enough SFP ports. I did find the WS-C3750G-12S-E which > looks like the good low-cost option. On the minuses > side, it's a softswitch, and no 10G uplinks for linking > in the server access switches. The main downside here > is advocating for their replacement and purchasing > strategies around here. eBay, used equip., etc... are > pretty much verboten. Basically, if we buy these now, > they'll be here in 5 years and forklifting the network > core could be painful.
We've been down this road before when searching for a 1U Ethernet switch that provides decent fibre-only port density. On the Cisco end, the 4928 is a little on the pricey side, and not very fetching if Layer 3 applications are needed, i.e., IPv6 is done in software, eek! For these requirements, we keep coming back to Juniper's EX4200-24F, which is a 24-port fibre-only switch, with 4x 1Gbps or 2x 10Gbps uplinks. Brocade's NetIron CES/CER 2000 platforms are probably also worth considering, as they can scale to 24- and 48-port fibre-only densities. But they are fairly advanced, supporting a vast array of IP/MPLS features, so unless they have interesting licensing strategies, that proposition could be pricey. Cheers, Mark.
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