The 3750X being the obvious choice, the only alternative I can think is the juniper EX4200 series. The junipers perform slightly better if you're willing to go multivendor, but I think the cisco beats it in price.
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 2:38 AM, Christopher J. Wargaski <[email protected]>wrote: > Hey John-- > > The new 3560X does not offer StackWise; too bad, that would an > excellent offering. The 2960 model does, but that really doesn't have > the horsepower that the 3560 does. One thing you might want to > consider is two 3560X switches, the 10G network module, four copper > SFPs and two copper cables so that you can make a 20 Gbps link between > the two. > > Certainly that comes nowhere close to the 64Gpbs StackWise link, > but is may be less expensive. > > cjw > > > > > Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2010 11:35:20 +1100 > > From: John Elliot <[email protected]> > > To: cisco-nsp <[email protected]> > > Subject: [c-nsp] Alternatives to 3750 w/ Stackwise? > > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > > > > > Hi, > > > > We have an existing POP with 7200(G2) and a 3560 - The POP is growing a > lot quicker than anticipated, and we have had to add another 3560 to > accommodate new client eth connections...the 2nd 3560 is connected via > PortChan to the 1st 3560(Not ideal). > > > > Before the POP becomes unmanageable, we are looking at replacing the 1st > 3560 with 2 x 3750's(Or another switch available that offers stackwise, but > can accommodate a growing number of vlans(We currently have ~250-300 in > use)), and then use the 3560's for access layer to clients(With the 3560's > having dual(PortChan) connectivity to each 3750. > > > > 2 Questions: > > - Are there any alternatives to the 3750 that we should be looking > at?(Given budget restraints, and also space(RU) limitations) > > - We have a redundant 7200 onsite, that we manually "copy" the config to > on each change...Is there a better(read "automatic") way to do this?(Not > HSRP/GLBP as the 7200 has upstream connectivity via ATM and only single > connectivity is available) > > > > Thanks in advance for any suggestions. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
