 Re: Which switch?
Hi there, buying Cisco is like buying IBM in the old days, nobody ever got sacked for buying it! High end Cisco kit is good and pretty reliable but you pay for that as well. We are staring to shift to Foundry kit on our network Edge (XMR's and BigIrons). When you start pushing Cisco kit, you do find that there are some limitations and contention within the switch (although not particularly on the 6500's). Worth comparing the cost of Foundry to Cisco though as we were surprised how much more we could get for our money.
Oh and one tip, if you are using CX4's, the cables are a bitch to run as they are so thick! They need a good nine inches clearance at the front of the switch to get round the corner! I would recommend going for 10GBASE-SR if you can afford it.
Hope this helps,
John |