On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Jeff Kell <[email protected]> wrote:
> If you seriously have 10G on the roadmap, 4500X looks sweet, you can get > it in a 16-port version, SFP / SFP+ you upgrade as you are ready. A > pair of them in a VSS deployment is going to be pretty steep however, > especially if you need smart layer-3 (Enterprise). > Thats what I thought too - but don't know how big a deployment is planned, and you loose a couple of ports for VSS and a couple of ports for your uplink. > Otherwise perhaps a 4507E+R with a pair of Sup7Es, you can pre-load > redundant power, Supervisors, and blades to fit the need now; if the VSS > pans out you just need another chassis (and whatever else you may want > "redundantly redundant"). > Not a big fan of the redundant supervisors (old habit from the 7500s) - and spanning tree would probably be adequate based on what I have understood. Or go with 3750E/X if their mac address tables meet your needs. You get > two 10G ports per switch, you can always uplink to a dumber/cheaper L2 > 10G switch. > The OP seemed to be having an issue with bursty traffic, which is why I would push him away from the 37xx product line. Andrew _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
