When the 5500 series were under development, 10GB was still very rare. I 
remember having a conversation with the project lead, and while I had the same 
concern about the lack of 10GB, I came away thinking they had made the right 
choice. Now that I've lived with the 5508s, I've yet to see traffic loads high 
enough to even justify the four 1GB connections I'm using on each one.
 
Jeff
 
>>> On Monday, April 30, 2012 at 6:14 PM, in message 
>>> <[email protected]>, Lee H 
>>> Badman <[email protected]> wrote:

Having suffered every WiSM defect known to man and probably a few others over 
the years, including frequent weird spats between the 6500 and the controller, 
we're moving away from the service module-based controllers to 5508 appliances. 
 

The trade-off? For some reason, the biggest networking hardware company in the 
world won't give users a 10 Gig interface on the 5508 and you have to find 8 
single Gig interfaces to connect the box to.

...Sigh.


Lee H. Badman
Wireless/Network Engineer, ITS
Adjunct Instructor, iSchool
Syracuse University
315.443.3003

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Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] WISM2


Has anyone installed Cisco WISM2 blades? Any problems or caveats?
-Jeff Legge
Radford University
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