On 6/17/2014 3:13 PM, David Paul Zimmerman wrote:
Although Cisco puts this switch in the data center product line, the Catalyst
4948E is nice for campus edge QoS/QinQ needs. It is 1RU, has 48 1000BASE-T
ports and four 10GE SFP+, dual PS, and has silicon-parity with the Sup6
Catalyst 4500 line so has all the same QoS capabilities.
-----Original Message-----
From: cisco-nsp [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lee
Starnes
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2014 11:02 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [c-nsp] Cisco model recommendation
Hello everyone,
I am in the need of a recommendation for a Cisco switch that is Layer 2/3,
1U, AC powered and has the same rate limit capability as the ME3400 series
has and has 48 ports of 10/100/1000. Does anyone have any experience with a
model that would best fit this need? These would not be deployed in remote
sites as CPE devices like the ME switches. I just need the ability to do
rate limiting and policing of traffic in several office departments.
I was looking at the 3650 series, but not sure if this has the same ability
to rate limit as the ME switches have.
The Cat 3650 likely won't have anywhere near the capabilities of the
ME3400 for shaping/policing. Is there a reason you aren't considering
the ME3600X as a replacement for the ME3400? The majority of the
Catalyst desktop switches (29XX/35XX/36XX/38XX) do not do rate-limiting
and are limited to DSCP/CoS based QoS features.
The ME3600X is available with 24 10/100/1000 ports and 2 SFP+ or 24 SFP
ports and the 2 SFP+'s. The ME3600X's are a service provider switch and
support MPLS as well as all the other features like policing/shaping,
routing protocols, QinQ, VPLS, etc.
As the other suggestion said, if you want to look at a 4500-series box,
I'd suggest the 4500X rather than the 4948E, we've got a couple of both,
and the 4500X is Sup7E based, 16-40 ports of SFP/SFP+ 1/10G rather than
the 4948E's older Sup6E-based with 48 10/100/1000+ 4 SFP+ 10Gs.
(Assuming here that you don't need the 10/100 connectivity requirements
still, in which case the 4948E might be a viable option.)
Jeremy "TheBrez" Bresley
[email protected]
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