Under the very clear heading of personal opinion, I have always tried to buy the best equipment I could. I tend to have to use equipment longer than I would normally like. I know if I were ordering equipment for a new building on campus today, I would would want the PoE+ and the 10G option for the future needs I will expect the equipment to cover for the next five or six years. Also the shared power is a cool sounding idea. The only problem I ever had out of our 3750 stacks were power issues.
As far as questions to ask. I would want my vendor to tell me when I could expect to see the equipment. In my environment here I only order when I need something. At best I can keep one or two switches on the shelf for emergencies. With Cisco currently, I am having to wait way longer than I can (politically speaking) for the equipment. I have even had it suggested from my administration that other companies networking gear may not be as good as Cisco's; but, it can be ordered and arrive at a reasonable time. I have been bit several times ordering a new product to be hit with the dreaded 'new product hold'. I am a little cynical about it....... John L. Exum Network Manager Harding University On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Jeffrey Ollie <j...@ocjtech.us> wrote: > Our vendor wants to do a dog & pony show on the new 3750X (and 3560X > and 2960S) switches that Cisco has just released. > > http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps10745/index.html > > We're about to plonk down a big chunk of money to buy 3750G switches > to replace a lot of our older network gear. > > We don't have 10G in the core (yet) so 10G uplinks aren't a big seller > for me. The PoE+ would be nice to power the Cisco 802.11n gear that > requires more than 15 watts to energize both radios (which I don't > have anyway), but I don't know of any other gear yet that would > require the higher power... > > So, before the meeting, does anyone else have opinions or questions > that I should be asking? > > -- > Jeff Ollie > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ > _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/