Ken, Take a look at Foundry Networks. I recently was at a sales presentation/hands-on seminar and their brand new stuff based on their new ASIC (JetCore) looks real sweet, but the older products are solid as well. You can get your hands on it at a decent price to.
Erick --- "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote: > Self might take a look at the offerings included on > www.extremenetworks.com > as they appear to be competitive on all criteria > listed in your message. > > (Disclaimer, my evaluation is in early stages; I > reserve the right to > subsequently uncover a showstopper lack of > functionality, but probably not > performance. . .) > > As far as switches are concerned, Cisco appears a > little too committed to > the hardware architecture they bought to overcome > your concerns at this > time. > > "Ken Diliberto" @groupstudy.com on 01/03/2002 > 11:37:57 PM > > Please respond to "Ken Diliberto" > > Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > cc: (bcc: Kevin Cullimore) > Subject: Layer 3 switch [7:30885] > > > I was asking myself, "Self, what is a good layer 3 > switch?". Self didn't > have a good answer other than the Cabletron Smart > Switch Router (which I've > used before). I couldn't think of a good offering > by Cisco. I'm looking > for something that can handle up to gig-ethernet. > Something that supports > BGP and OSPF. Any idea on price? > > Any thoughts or suggestions? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send your FREE holiday greetings online! http://greetings.yahoo.com Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=30914&t=30885 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
