I'd have to agree. I don't think the Cisco will win on price, but in most
areas I've found them to be better. I've done more Foundry than Cisco, so I
would naturally be more biassed towards Foundry but I have to say the Cisco
does the business and more.
Gaz
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> I can only speak for the Cisco 11000 series (formerly Arrowpoint)
switches.
> They're really designed for more than load sharing, but they are seriously
> cool devices. It's better that you read about their capabilities first
> hand, though. Just go to CCO and read up on the 11050 and 11150, one of
> which is probably what you'd want to use.
>
> They're very easy to configure, at least at the basic level. When you
start
> to do some of the more advanced stuff you'll probably end up needing some
> support, but I wouldn't say that is a negative. These switches have a lot
> of features and you can use them in a number of ways. As a front end for
a
> server farm, they excel. I would swiftly kick in the head anyone trying
to
> take mine away from me. :-)
>
> HTH,
> John
>
> > Hi All,
> > I have been asked to design an internal lan structure at an ISP which
> > has load balancing for our server farm of 5 servers at the switching
> > level. Can some one tell me how good cisco switch's are in this area
> > compared to Foundry.
> >
> > Also, what protocols are used at the switch layer to create load
> > balancing (if any )
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> >
> > John Brandis
> >
> > Network Infrastructure Engineer
> > GoWireless Communications
> > Level 7, 155 George Street
> > Sydney, NSW Australia 2000
> > 02-9251-5000
> > 0418-613-976
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