On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 04:22:51PM -0500, Peter Teuben wrote:
> i see more and more "consumer" Gbit switches available in
> bestbuy etc. But the big guns like Cisco still sell for
> $2-3k. if you're just doing Gbit networking, even in small
> groups, do you really need to keep buying them $$$? What's
> their advantage? A need for Cisco exams to configure them?
1) Vlans
2) all switches (that I know of) are not fully provisioned, meaning
that you cannot have all ports going at full speed at the same time.
Better switches are better provisioned.
3) a lot of cisco switches let you do some layer 3 stuff too... depends
which ones you are talking about.
- Rob
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