Maybe as part of Cisco!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
Perry J. Lucas
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 9:15 PM
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Subject: RE: Catalyst 6509 vs BlackDiamond [7:13837]
The big question is will Extreme and Foundry be around next year?
Perry J. Lucas
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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
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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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