Hi
You have a point there, but I will bet Foundry will be, not too sure about
Extreme. Foundry just reported their 10th straight profitable quarter.
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John Hardman CCNP MCSE
""Perry J. Lucas"" wrote in message
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> The big question is will Extreme and Foundry be around next year?
>
> Perry J. Lucas
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Hardman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 2:18 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Catalyst 6509 vs BlackDiamond [7:13837]
>
> Hi
>
> It's true. It's also true that in similar tests with a Foundry will also
> out
> perform a Cat. But keep in mind that a lot of this works out to be FUD.
> Sales people from each company will have various reasons why you should
> choose their product over the other. The bottom line is that you have to
> choose which is right for your company based on it's business and
> technical
> needs.
>
> Both Extreme and Foundry are making a strong push into Cisco's
> enterprise
> switch market share. Their products are very competitive, especially at
> the
> price point. If I could get switches with Foundry's architecture,
> Extreme's
> network management software and CLI, and Cisco's end to end solutions, I
> would be a very happy engineer!
>
> $0.02
> --
> John Hardman CCNP MCSE
>
>
> ""mishaal"" wrote in message
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> > How true is this?
> > Can anyone throw some light on this report from www.zdlabs.com, 70-80%
> > packet loss is rather substantial..hope it's not true!
> > thanks
> >
> > From ZDLAbs :
> >
> > " In Layer 2 mode, the Black Diamond and Alpine switches forwarded
> 100%
> > of the traffic offered during the test
> > without dropping a single packet. This resulted in a throughput of
> 57.1
> > million packets/second for the Black
> > Diamond and over 38 million packets/second for the Alpine using
> 64-byte
> > packets. These results represent
> > the maximum throughput possible, given the port configurations of the
> > switches.
> > The Cisco Catalyst 6509 lost over 78% of the packets offered during
> the
> > Layer 2 full mesh test at the 64-byte
> > packet size. According to the Catalyst 6509 documentation, the 6509
> > switch fabric is capable of forwarding
> > 15 million packets/second. This rate is substantially less than the
> 57.1
> > million packets/second offered during
> > our test, which explains the large packet loss."
> >
> > 'The Black Diamond and Alpine switches successfully routed 100% of the
> > packets offered (over 5.7 billion
> > 64-byte packets) during the test without dropping a single packet.
> This
> > results in a Layer 3 throughput of
> > over 95.2 million packets/second for the Black Diamond and over 47.6
> > million packets/second for the
> > Alpine with 64-byte packets.
> > The Layer 3 full mesh results for the Cisco Catalyst 6509 were very
> > similar to the Layer 2 results. The
> > switch dropped a large number of packets at all block sizes (86.86%
> with
> > 64-byte packets). As in the
> > previous tests with Catalyst 6509 we verified that the internal switch
> > counters matched the results from
> > the SmartFlow application and that there were no packet errors during
> > the test."
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